English → Latin
“consume” in Latin
cōnsūmōto take wholly or completely; to consume, devour, waste, squander, use up; annihilate, destroy, bring to naught; to killabsūmōto diminish, take away, use up, consume, exhaust; to ruin, destroy, annihilate, corrupt; to killcōnficiōto prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse; to produce, cause, bring about, effect, sehauriōto draw (especially water), drain; to drain, drink up, swallow; to take in with the senses as if to drink or swallowedōto eatcomedōto eat or chew up; to consume or devour; to fret or chafeexedōto eat up, devour, consume; to corrodetābēscōto gradually melt or dissolve; to dwindle away, waste awaycontābēscōto waste slowly away; to be consumedmorbusa disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment; a fault, vice, failing; sorrow, grief, distress
The English word consume itself goes back to Latin emō, through consumo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
consume
to destroy, consumere: absumere; conficere (e.g., of care, etc.); (the words are found in this connection and order), conficere et consumere: haurire (of fire; of which consumere, absumere, are also used): to be consumed by fire, flammis absumi: incendio consumi: fire consumes all things, ignis consumptor or confector omnium: the fire consumes every thing, ignis omnia disturbat ac dissipat: anybody is consumed by grief, aegritudo exest alicujus animum: to be consumed by grief, moerore consumi: to consume one’s energies, strength, etc., vires consumere. Time consumes all things, nihil est quod non conficiat vetustas: to consume one’s self (itself), se conficere; tabescere [Vid. CONSUME, INTR.] : consuming, tabificus (perturbationes, morbus): omnia hauriens (of fire).
To lavish; e.g., property, effundere, conficere. (the words are found in this connection and order), effundere et consumere: dissipare: obligurire: lacerare (e.g., patrimonium, patria bona): perdere (consume unnecessarily, waste; e.g., tempus, or tempore abuti).
To use for the sustenance of the body, edere: comedere (eat up): exedere (eat away or up; used also of grief).
consume
INTR., se conficere: tabescere: contabescere (to waste away gradually; of persons; e.g., morbo, desiderio).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for consume?
- The usual Latin words for “consume” are cōnsūmō, absūmō, cōnficiō; also hauriō, edō, comedō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.