desumo

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

desumo

1. first-person singular present indicative of desumere

• dumose

From dē- + sūmō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈsuː.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈs̬uː.mo]

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 BCE – 17 CE, 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

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

• “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.