LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verbthird conjugation

cōnsūmō

cōnsūmō (present infinitive cōnsūmere, perfect active cōnsūmpsī or cōnsūmsī, supine cōnsūmptum or cōnsūmtum)
Classical[kõːˈsuː.moː]Ecclesiastical[konˈsuː.mo]
№ 869 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. to take wholly or completely
  2. to consume, devour, waste, squander, use up; annihilate, destroy, bring to naught
  3. to kill
  4. to eat, consume, devour
  5. to waste, weaken, enervate
  6. to spend, consume, pass
    Persequi singulos longum est quorum aut latrunculi aut pila aut excoquendi in sole corporis cura consumpsere uitam.It would be tedious to mention all the different men who have spent the whole of their life over chess or ball or the practice of baking their bodies in the sun.c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, De brevitate vitae 13

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

tōtum edō vel bibō; ignis quoque cōnsūmit.
cōnsūmō -ere — in Mille Verba, Cibus et Convīvium

Conjugation conjugation 3

active indicative
formpresentimperfectfutureperfectpluperfectfut. perfect
1st sg.cōnsūmōcōnsūmēbamcōnsūmamcōnsūmpsīcōnsūmpseramcōnsūmpserō
2nd sg.cōnsūmiscōnsūmēbāscōnsūmēscōnsūmpsistīcōnsūmpserāscōnsūmpseris
3rd sg.cōnsūmitcōnsūmēbatcōnsūmetcōnsūmpsitcōnsūmpseratcōnsūmpserit
1st pl.cōnsūmimuscōnsūmēbāmuscōnsūmēmuscōnsūmpsimuscōnsūmpserāmuscōnsūmpserimus
2nd pl.cōnsūmitiscōnsūmēbātiscōnsūmētiscōnsūmpsistiscōnsūmpserātiscōnsūmpseritis
3rd pl.cōnsūmuntcōnsūmēbantcōnsūmentcōnsūmpsērunt
cōnsūmpsēre		cōnsūmpserantcōnsūmpserint
active subjunctive
active subjunctive
formpresentimperfectperfectpluperfect
1st sg.cōnsūmamcōnsūmeremcōnsūmpserimcōnsūmpsissem
2nd sg.cōnsūmāscōnsūmerēscōnsūmpserīscōnsūmpsissēs
3rd sg.cōnsūmatcōnsūmeretcōnsūmpseritcōnsūmpsisset
1st pl.cōnsūmāmuscōnsūmerēmuscōnsūmpserīmuscōnsūmpsissēmus
2nd pl.cōnsūmātiscōnsūmerētiscōnsūmpserītiscōnsūmpsissētis
3rd pl.cōnsūmantcōnsūmerentcōnsūmpserintcōnsūmpsissent
passive indicative
passive indicative
formpresentimperfectfuture
1st sg.cōnsūmorcōnsūmēbarcōnsūmar
2nd sg.cōnsūmeris
cōnsūmere		cōnsūmēbāris
cōnsūmēbāre		cōnsūmēris
cōnsūmēre
3rd sg.cōnsūmiturcōnsūmēbāturcōnsūmētur
1st pl.cōnsūmimurcōnsūmēbāmurcōnsūmēmur
2nd pl.cōnsūmiminīcōnsūmēbāminīcōnsūmēminī
3rd pl.cōnsūmunturcōnsūmēbanturcōnsūmentur
passive subjunctive
passive subjunctive
formpresentimperfect
1st sg.cōnsūmarcōnsūmerer
2nd sg.cōnsūmāris
cōnsūmāre		cōnsūmerēris
cōnsūmerēre
3rd sg.cōnsūmāturcōnsūmerētur
1st pl.cōnsūmāmurcōnsūmerēmur
2nd pl.cōnsūmāminīcōnsūmerēminī
3rd pl.cōnsūmanturcōnsūmerentur
imperative
imperative
formactivepassive
pres. 2nd sg.cōnsūmecōnsūmere
pres. 2nd pl.cōnsūmitecōnsūmiminī
fut. 2nd sg.cōnsūmitōcōnsūmitor
fut. 3rd sg.cōnsūmitōcōnsūmitor
fut. 2nd pl.cōnsūmitōte—
fut. 3rd pl.cōnsūmuntōcōnsūmuntor
infinitives & participles
infinitives & participles
formactivepassive
present infinitivecōnsūmerecōnsūmī
perfect infinitivecōnsūmpsissecōnsūmptum esse
future infinitivecōnsūmptūrum essecōnsūmptum īrī
present participlecōnsūmēns—
perfect participle—cōnsūmptus
cōnsūmpta, cōnsūmptā, cōnsūmptae, cōnsūmptam, cōnsūmptārum, cōnsūmptās, cōnsūmpte, cōnsūmptī, cōnsūmptīs, cōnsūmptō, cōnsūmptōrum, cōnsūmptōs
future participlecōnsūmptūrus
cōnsūmptūra, cōnsūmptūrā, cōnsūmptūrae, cōnsūmptūram, cōnsūmptūrārum, cōnsūmptūrās, cōnsūmptūre, cōnsūmptūrī, cōnsūmptūrīs, cōnsūmptūrō, cōnsūmptūrōrum, cōnsūmptūrōs, cōnsūmptūrum		cōnsūmendus
cōnsūmundus, cōnsūmenda, cōnsūmendā, cōnsūmendae, cōnsūmendam, cōnsūmendārum, cōnsūmendās, cōnsūmende, cōnsūmendīs, cōnsūmendōrum, cōnsūmendōs, cōnsūmunda, cōnsūmundā, cōnsūmundae, cōnsūmundam, cōnsūmundārum, cōnsūmundās, cōnsūmunde, cōnsūmundī, cōnsūmundīs, cōnsūmundō, cōnsūmundōrum, cōnsūmundōs, cōnsūmundum
gerundcōnsūmendī, cōnsūmendō, cōnsūmendumsupinecōnsūmptum, cōnsūmptū

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

tempus consumere in aliqua re
to pass one's time in doing something.
morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi
to die a natural death.
otiosum tempus consumere in aliqua re
to spend one's leisure hours on an object.
omne (otiosum) tempus in litteris consumere
to devote all one's leisure moments to study.
operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
to lose one's labour.
multum operae ac laboris consumere in aliqua re
to exert oneself very energetically in a matter.
pecuniam insumere in aliquid or consumere in aliqua re
to devote money to a purpose.

con-sūmo, sumpsi, sumptum, 3 (
I. perf. sync. consumpsti, Prop. 1, 3, 37; inf. consumpse, Lucr. 1, 234), v. a., to take wholly or completely, i. e.,
I. Lit.
A. In gen. (post-Aug. and rare): vasti surgunt immensis torquibus orbes, tergaque consumunt pelagus, take up, completely cover, Manil. 5, 584: tela omnia solus pectore consumo, Sil. 5, 640; cf.: clipeo tela, id. 10, 129: jugulo ensem, Stat. Th. 10, 813: ferrum pectore, id. ib. 12, 745; cf. id. Achill. 2, 205; Dig. 26, 7, 54.—
B. In partic., of food, to eat, consume, devour (class.): agri multa efferunt quae vel statim consumantur vel mandentur condita vetustati, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151: frumenta, Caes. B. G. 6, 43; cf. id. ib. 7, 17; 7, 77: fruges, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 27: vitiatum (aprum), id. S. 2, 2, 92: angues, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 101: draconem, Suet. Tib. 72: mensas accisis dapibus, Verg. A. 7, 125 al.—
II. Transf.
1. In gen., to consume, devour, waste, squander, annihilate, destroy, bring to naught, kill.
a. Of inanimate things: faciat quod lubet: Sumat, consumat, perdat, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 56; cf. Sall. C. 12, 2: patrimonium per luxuriam, Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6: bona paterna, Quint. 3, 11, 13; 3, 11, 16: omnem materiam, Ov. M. 8, 876: omne id aurum in ludos, Liv. 39, 5, 9; Val. Max. 3, 1, 1 fin.; cf. 2. β infra: omnes fortunas sociorum, Caes. B. G. 1, 11; cf.: omnes opes et spes privatas meas, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 96, 2 Dietsch: omnia flammā, Caes. B. C. 2, 14; cf.: aedes incendio, Liv. 25, 7, 6: domum incendio, Suet. Calig. 59: consumpturis viscera mea flammis, Quint. 6, prooem. § 3: viscera fero morsu, Ov. M. 4, 113: anulum usu, id. P. 4, 10, 5; cf.: ferrum rubigine, to eat, consume, Curt. 7, 8, 15.—Of time, to spend, pass: horas multas saepe suavissimo sermone, Cic. Fam. 11, 27, 5: dicendo tempus, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 39, § 96: diem altercatione, id. Fam. 1, 2, 1; id. Univ. 1 fin.; id. Fam. 7, 1, 1: annua tempora, Lucr. 5, 618: consumitur vigiliis reliqua pars noctis, Caes. B. G. 5, 31; id. B. C. 2, 23: magnam partem diei, id. B. G. 5, 9 fin.: omne tempus, Liv. 29, 33, 9; 24, 14, 10: dies decem in his rebus, Caes. B. G. 5, 11: in eo studio aetatem, Cic. Off. 1, 1, 2: tota nox in exinaniendā nave consumitur, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 64; Caes. B. C. 2, 23, 1: multos dies per dubitationem, Sall. J. 62, 9; cf. Tac. H. 4, 43 fin.: omne tempus circa Medeam, id. Or. 3: continuum biduum epulando potandoque, Suet. Tib. 42: precando Tempora cum blandis verbis, to waste or lose time and words in supplications, Ov. M. 2, 575: multis diebus et laboribus consumptis, Sall. J. 93, 1: ubi longa meae consumpsti tempora noctis? Prop. 1, 3, 37.—Of strength, feeling, voice, etc.: in quo tanta commoveri actio non posset, si esset consumpta superiore motu et exhausta, Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 103: adfectus, Quint. 2, 13, 13; 4, 2, 120: spiritus, id. 11, 3, 53: vocem instans metus, Tac. H. 1, 42: ignominiam, id. ib. 3, 24: gratiam rei nimiā captatione, Quint. 8, 6, 51: vires ipsā subtilitate, id. 12, 2, 13: bona ingenii, id. 12, 5, 2; 3, 11, 23; cf. Sall. J. 25, 11.—Poet.: cum mare, cum terras consumpserit, aëra tentet, i. e.-seek a refuge therein in vain, Ov. H. 6, 161.—
b. Of living beings.
(a). To destroy, kill: si me vis aliqua morbi aut natura ipsa consumpsisset, Cic. Planc. 37, 90; cf.: quos fortuna belli consumpserat, Sall. H. 1, 41, 5 Dietsch: tantum exercitum fame, Caes. B. G. 7, 20 fin.; so, siti, Hirt. B. G. 8, 41 fin.: acie, Vell. 2, 52, 5: morte, Tib. 1, 3, 55: morbo, Nep. Reg. 2, 1: senio et maerore, Liv. 40, 54, 1 al.—Facete: garrulus hunc consumet, Hor. S. 1, 9, 33.—
(b). Rarely, to waste, weaken, enervate: inediā et purgationibus et vi ipsius morbi consumptus es, Cic. Fam. 16, 10, 1; cf. Ov. M. 9, 663; and consumpta membra senectā, id. ib. 14, 148.—
2. In partic.
a. To divide, make an exhaustive division of (very rare): inventio in sex partis consumitur, Auct. Her. 1, 3, 4.—
b. Aliquid in aliquā re, rar. in aliquid or absol. (in Cic. only with in and abl.; cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 53), to bestow upon something, to use, employ, spend upon or about something.
(a). In aliquā re: pecuniam in agrorum emptionibus, to lay out, invest, Cic. Agr. 1, 5, 14: aurum in monumento, id. ib. 1, 4, 12; Nep. Timoth. 1, 2: studium in virorum fortium factis memoriae prodendis, Cic. Fam. 6, 12, 5; cf.: in armis plurimum studii, Nep. Epam. 2, 5: tantum laboris in rebus falsis, Quint. 12, 11, 15: curam in re unā, Hor. S. 2, 4, 48: ingenium in musicis, Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 50; cf. id. Phil. 5, 18, 49; id. Sest. 13, 31; Quint. 1, 2, 11.—
(b). In aliquid (cf. the Gr. ἀναλίσκειν εἴς τι): tota in dulces consument ubera natos, Verg. G. 3, 178; Prop. 4 (5), 6, 55. umorem in arbusta, Sen. Q. N. 3, 11, 3: bona paterna in opera publica, Quint. 3, 11, 13: pecuniam in monumentum, Dig. 35, 1, 40 fin.—
(g). Absol.: si quid consili Habet, ut consumat nunc, quom nil obsint doli, use up, exhaust, Ter. And. 1, 1, 133.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincōnsūmō

Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō From con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”).

Descendants
  • Englishconsume
  • Frenchconsumer
  • Italianconsumere
  • Italianconsumare
  • Portugueseconsumir
  • Romanianconsuma
  • Spanishconsumir
  • Galicianconsumir
  • Siciliancunzumari

Quick answers

What does cōnsūmō mean in Latin?
cōnsūmō, a verb, means “to take wholly or completely; to consume, devour, waste, squander, use up; annihilate, destroy, bring to naught”.
What are the principal parts of cōnsūmō?
cōnsūmō, cōnsūmere, cōnsūmpsī, cōnsūmptum (third conjugation).
How do you pronounce cōnsūmō?
In classical Latin, [kõːˈsuː.moː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [konˈsuː.mo].
Where does cōnsūmō come from?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? → Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm → Proto-Italic *kom → Proto-Italic *kom- → Latin cōnsūmō.