absumo Latin · revision 9425

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la sūmō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [apˈsuː.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [abˈsuː.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''absūmō''' (present infinitive absūmere, perfect active absūmpsī, supine absūmptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''absūmpsī'', participle ''absūmptum'' (not ''-msī'', ''-mtum'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ab-]] “away” and [[sūmō]] “to take”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of squandering money.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Originally “to take away”, it meant to use up, spend, squander, as in Plautus; to consume food, as in Varro; to wear out, exhaust, of worry and disease, as in Terence; of fire to destroy, as in Livy; in the passive to be used up, disappear, as in Virgil; to absorb moisture, as in Seneca; and of a cause of death to carry off, as in Livy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to take away, lessen, destroy, consume.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of squandering.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of exhaustion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of fire and death.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To use up, [[m|en|squander]], waste.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To consume, devour.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To wear out, exhaust; to destroy.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To absorb.^(OLD 2012)

+ # (of death) To carry off.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[absūmēdō]]

+ * [[absūmptiō]]

+ * [[absūmptus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sūmō]]

+ * [[cōnsūmō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}