consumo
Catalan
Galician
Interlingua
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -umo
Related terms
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈsuː.moː/, [kõːˈsuː.moː]
Verb
cōnsūmō (present infinitive cōnsūmere, perfect active cōnsūmpsī, supine cōnsūmptum); third conjugation
- I take wholly or completely.
- I consume, devour, waste, squander, use up; annihilate, destroy, bring to naught, kill.
- (of food) I eat, consume, devour.
- (of people) I waste, weaken, enervate.
- (of time) I spend, consume, pass.
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 13:
- Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere uitam.
- It would be tedious to mention all the different men who have spent the whole of their life over chess or ball or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun.
- Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere uitam.
Inflection
Derived terms
- cōnsūmptibilis
- cōnsūmptiō
- cōnsūmptor
- cōnsūmptrīx
- cōnsūmptus
- praecōnsūmō
Descendants
References
- consumo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- consumo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- consumo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to pass one's time in doing something: tempus consumere in aliqua re
- to exert oneself very energetically in a matter: multum operae ac laboris consumere in aliqua re
- to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
- to spend one's leisure hours on an object: otiosum tempus consumere in aliqua re
- to devote all one's leisure moments to study: omne (otiosum) tempus in litteris consumere
- to devote money to a purpose: pecuniam insumere in aliquid or consumere in aliqua re
- to pass one's time in doing something: tempus consumere in aliqua re
Portuguese
Etymology
Back-formation from consumir.
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:consumo.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈsumo/, [kõnˈsumo]
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