desumo

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈzu.mo/, (traditional) /deˈsu.mo/
  • Rhymes: -umo
  • Hyphenation: de‧sù‧mo

Verb

desumo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of desumere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From dē- +‎ sūmō.

Pronunciation

Verb

dēsūmō (present infinitive dēsūmere, perfect active dēsūmpsī, supine dēsūmptum); third conjugation

  1. to choose, select
    Synonyms: dēligō, adoptō, optō, dēstinō, sēpōnō, legō, ēligō, capiō, creō, sūmō
    • 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, The History of Rome 4,55:
      duo singuli singulos sibi consules adseruandos adsidua opera desumunt
      two of them choose each a consul whose labour is to be beheld unremittingly
    • Giovanni Aurelio Rimini, Sermonum Libri:
      nunc semen instituo, unde mihi spes est non vana tuarum mox rerum cumulo desumere frugem
      I plant seeds now and I hope soon to select a heap of their produce for you

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: desume
  • Italian: desumere
  • Portuguese: desumir

References

  • desumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • desumo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • desumo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.