The corpus record — Latin

desumo

desumo · v. a

to take for one's self

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Where it lives

De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

dē-sūmo — Lewis & Short

dē-sūmo, mpsi (msi), 3, v. a.Lit.,

I to take for one's self from a multitude or mass; hence, to pick out, choose, select (syn. deligere); to take upon one's self, undertake (rare, and perh. not ante-Aug.— syn. suscipere): sibi consules asservandos desumunt, Liv. 4, 55, 3: sibi hostes, id. 38, 45; cf.: sibi pugnas, Tac. Or. 37; and: cursum certamenque, Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 7: sibi vacuas Athenas, *Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 81.

Where it came from

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