sumptus Latin · revision 30997

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la sub-, ine-pro *h₁em-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsuːmp.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsump.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sūmptus''' ''m'' (genitive sūmptūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''sumtus''.^(OLD 2012)

+ Early Latin sometimes has the genitive ''sumptī'' (Plautus, Cato, Lucilius, Varro).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|sūmō|t=to take; to spend]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The verb is [[m|la|sub-]] with [[m|la|emō|t=to take; to buy]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*eme-|t=to take]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁em-|t=to take]]; the same compound is in [[xum|sumtu|t=to take]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Mostellaria'': thirty minae are nothing compared with what another man spends lavishly (''dapsilis sumptūs facit'').^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the spending of money, outlay, and ''sumptum facere'' is to spend; on its own it is often lavish or extravagant spending.^(OLD 2012) It is a charge or expense: in Plautus whatever one spends on a bad wife is ''sumptus'', on a good guest it is profit.^(OLD 2012) ''Meō sumptū'' is “at my expense”, and ''sumptī facere'' to go to the cost of something.^(OLD 2012) Terence uses it of the money allowed to a young man for his spending.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “cost, charges, expense”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is also food and victuals, upkeep, and movable goods.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of spending and of an expense.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of an allowance for expenses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The spending of money, [[m|en|expenditure]], outlay; extravagant spending.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An [[m|en|expense]], cost, charge, ''meō sumptū'', at my expense.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Money allowed for expenses.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|victuals|alt=Victuals]]; upkeep; movable goods.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sūmptuārius]]

+ * [[sūmptuōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sūmō]]

+ * [[emō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes ''sumptus'', expense that reduces one's wealth and borders on prodigality, from [[impēnsa|alt=impēnsae]], expense laid out to reach an object.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}