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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of sūmō.
Participle
sūmptus (feminine sūmpta, neuter sūmptum); first/second-declension participle
- assumed, claimed
- undertaken
- selected
- purchased
- obtained, acquired
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
Etymology 2
From sumō (I take) + -tus (noun formation suffix).
Noun
sūmptus m (genitive sūmptūs); fourth declension
- cost, charge, expense
- Synonym: impēnsa
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “sumptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sumptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sumptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sumptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be interred (at the expense of the state, at one's own cost): funere efferri or simply efferri (publice; publico, suo sumptu)
- his means suffice to defray daily expenses: copiae cotidianis sumptibus suppetunt (vid. sect. IV. 2, note suppeditare...)
- to spend money on an object: sumptum facere, insumere in aliquid
- prodigal expenditure: sumptus effusi (vid. sect. IX. 2, note Cf. effusa fuga...) or profusi
- to incur few expenses: sumptui parcere (Fam. 16. 4)
- to limit one's expenditure: sumptibus modum statuere
- to retrench: sumptum minuere
- current expenses: sumptus perpetui (Off. 2. 12. 42)
- munificence: sumptus liberales (Off. 2. 12. 42)