Definition of sumo
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Orthography ID = 1015695
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LEM
sūmō, sūmere, sūmpsī, sūmptus
verb (3rd conjugation)
  1. to take, take up, take in hand, lay hold of, assume
  2. to take, eat, drink, consume, enjoy, put on
  3. to take in exchange, buy, purchase
  4. [figuratively] to take, take up, assume
  5. to take up, under take, enter upon, begin
  6. to exact, inflict
Abbreviations
sūmō sūmpsī, sūmptus, ere sub+cmo, to take, take up, take in hand, lay hold of, assume: a me argentum, T.: legem in manūs: litteras ad te a M. Lepido consule sumpsimus, have provided ourselves with: Tusculi ante quam Romae sumpta sunt arma, L.: perventum est eo, quo sumpta navis est, hired: pecuniam mutuam, borrow.

—To take, eat, drink, consume, enjoy, put on: vinum, N.: Partem Falerni, H.: pomum de lance, O.: sumptā virili togā, put on: regium ornatum, N.

— To take in exchange, buy, purchase: decumas agri Leontini: Quae parvo sumi nequeunt, H.

—Fig., to take, take up, assume: tantos sibi spiritūs, ut, etc., assumed, Cs.: animum, take courage, O.: sump{*} tis inimicitiis, susceptā causā.

—To take up, under take, enter upon, begin: omne bellum sumi facile, to be undertaken, S.: bellum cum Veientibus sumptum, L.: Prima fide vocisque ratae temptamina, O.: Quem virum lyrā sumis celebrare? H.

—To exact, inflict, with supplicium or poenam: more maiorum supplicium sumpsit, Cs.: de illā supplicium sumere: virgis supplicium crudelissime sumere: pro maleficio poenam sumi oportere: tam crudelīs poenas, to take such cruel revenge, V.

— To take, choose, select: philosophiae studium: hoc mihi sumo, this is my choice: meliores liberos sumpsisse quam genuisse, i. e. to have adopted, S.: materiam vestris aequam Viribus, H.: mala, O.: disceptatorem, L.: Miltiadem imperatorem sibi, N.

—To take, assume, claim, arrogate, appropriate: quamquam mihi non sumo tantum neque adrogo, ut, etc.: imperatorias sibi partīs, Cs.: Nec sumit aut ponit securīs Arbitrio popularis aurae, H.: voltūs acerbos, O.: antiquos mores, L.

—To take, obtain, get, acquire, receive: distat sumasne pudenter An rapias, H.: laudem a crimine, O.: sumpto rigore, O.

—To take, lay out, use, apply, employ, spend, consume: frustra operam, T.: laborem, Cs.: diem ad deliberandum, Cs.: cibi quietisque tempus, L.: curis sumptus, worn out, C. poet.

—Of a speaker, to take for granted, assume, maintain, suppose, affirm: id sumere pro certo, quod dubium est: beatos esse deos: pro non dubio, aequius esse, etc., L.

—To take, bring forward, cite, mention, adduce: homines notos sumere odiosum est: unum hoc sumo: quid quisquam potest ex omni memoriā sumere inlustrius?
 
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