absūmēdo — Lewis & Short
absūmēdo, ĭnis, f.absumo,
I a consuming or devouring consumption, in a pun:
quanta sumini absumedo!Plaut. Capt. 4, 3, 3.
The corpus record — Latin
absumedo
absumedo · f
a consuming
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- absumedo Plautus, Captivi 4.3
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.