“take” in Latin

Transitively, sumere (to remove that which is at rest; to take anything to one’s self in order to use or to enjoy it, etc.): capere (to take hold of; then to make one’s self master of a thing in order to possess it: hence = to capture, e.g., a town): rapere (to snatch away, carry off hastily): arripere (to snatch to one’s self suddenly, unexpectedly): accipere (to accept a thing offered; opposed to dare, tradere, etc.; but the former words rather denote a taking of one’s own accord): deprehendere (to catch, take in the act; e.g., of stealing): tollere (to take up): promere, depromere (to bring or fetch forth, for the purpose of use): auferre (to bear or carry forth or away; hence, also, simply “to take,” in good or bad sense; and then = eripere, surripere, furari): eripere (to snatch out, take with violence; implying resistance on the part of a person in possession): surripere (to purloin, take by stealth): furari (to steal): expugnare (to take by storm; PROP. or figuratively). Not to take anything, aliquid non accipere: aliquid accipere abnuo (courteously to refuse acceptance): to take to pieces, dissolvere aliquid (e.g., movable towers, turres ambulatorias, Hirtius; hence of taking to pieces puzzles, etc.): in memoria (sua) discerpere: to take in the hand, in manum sumere; in manum capere (to seize with the hand): to take in hand (a book, a writing, etc.), in manus sumere (e.g., Epicurum): to take money, pecuniam sumere (to take to one’s self for any use, as Ter., Ad., 5, 9, 40, a me argentum, quanti est, sume): pecuniam capere (to take it whether the other party be willing to give it or not): pecuniam accipere (to take it when another offers it; hence, also = to suffer one’s self to be bribed). To take up money on interest, pecuniam mutuari or mutuam sumere.

To assume, Vid: To take the name of king, regium nomen sumere: regium nomen sibi asciscere. PHR. To take for granted [Vid: ASSUME (end of article)]. To take upon one’s self, (α) To undertake a thing, suscipere (not to decline; opposed to recusare): recipere (to undertake a thing readily, and to answer for a good result; ☞ Müller, Cic., De Or., 2, 24, 101). (β) To promise, to answer for, in se recipere (the proper word; e.g., periculum): praestare aliquid (e.g., culpam, alicujus factum): I take it upon myself, ad me recipio. To take out anything (i. e., to reach, or fetch out or forth), promere, depromere ex or de, etc. (to fetch a thing out of a place in order to use it): eximere ex, de, etc. (to take away a thing, whether for the purpose of removing it or of applying it to a different use): demere de or ex, etc. (in order to remove it; e.g., secures e fascibus): auferre ex, etc. (to take away a thing in order to gain possession of it; e.g., pecuniam ex aerario). That passage I have taken litterally from Dicaearchus, istum ego locum totidem verbis a Dicaearcho transtuli. To take for anything; (α) To receive payment for anything, accipere pro re. (β) To interpret; as, accipere in aliquid (e.g., in contumeliam). To take (i. e., receive) into, recipere in aliquid (e.g., in ordinem senatorium); assumere in aliquem (e.g., in societatem). To take with one, aliquid auferre (to take away with one’s self): aliquem secum educere (to take out with one’s self): aliquem secum deducere (to lead anyone away from a place with one’s self): aliquem abducere (to lead or take anyone from one place to another). To take from a person or thing, demere de, etc. (from a thing, PROP.): demere alicui aliquid, eximere alicui aliquid or aliquem ex re (to take anything from a person, figuratively; i. e., to free him from anything). To take a thing or person in anything = to make or compose anything out of a material, facere, or fingere, or effingere, or exprimere aliquid ex aliqua re. To take a thing or person to or as anything; (α) To apply to anything, adhibere aliquem ad or in aliquid: (β) To choose one to anything, sumere (only in the comic writers capere) aliquem, with an accusative of that to which the person is chosen; e.g., to take one as an umpire, aliquem arbitrum; to take one as a general, aliquem imperatorem. To take to one’s self: (α) To receive into one’s house, aliquem ad se, domum ad se, or, simply, domum suam recipere; aliquem tecto et mensa recipere, to one’s house and to one’s table. (β) To put in connection with one’s self, pecuniam in crumenam suam condere. (γ) To eat or drink, sumere (food and liquids; e.g., venenum): cibum modicum cum aqua (Cels.): assumere (Lucr.; Cels., passim; e.g., nihil assumere, nisi aquam): capere (food): potare or bibere (to drink; e.g., medicamentum): accipere (medicine, poison, etc.). To take nothing (no food), cibo se abs|tinere: to take a little (food), gustare (as a luncheon; Vid: Gierig., Plin. Ep., 3, 5, 11): to give one anything to take (to drink, etc.), alicui aliquid potandum praebere. To take well or in good part, in bonam partem accipere: belle ferre: boni or aeque bonique facere: boni consulere: to take ill or in bad part, in malam partem accipere: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre: male interpretari: to take kindly, benigne audire (to listen kindly to), in mitiorem partem or mollius interpretari: mollius accipere (indulgently): to take thankfully, grato animo interpretari: to take coolly, aequo animo accipere: to take as a reproach, accipere in or ad contumeliam: vertere ad contumeliam: to take anything said in joke as if said in earnest, quod dictum est per jocum, id serio praevertere (Plaut., Amph., 3, 2, 40): to take a thing differently from what was meant, accipere in aliam partem ac dictum est. To take rest, quiescere, requiescere, quiescere et respirare (general term): acquiescere, conquiescere, quietem capere, quieti se dare (from bodily exertion): se reficere (fin exertion of body or mind). animum relaxare (of mind). To take root [Vid: ROOT]. To take a sketch of anything [Vid: SKETCH].

To put up with (an insult), accipere.

To catch, Vid:

Intransitively. To succeed, please, Vid: TAKE AFTER, i. e., to be like, imitate, follow, similem fieri alicujus or alicui (to become like): aliquem imitari (to imitate): *alicujus ingenium or mores induere (to adopt the character or manners of anyone): to have taken after anyone, alicujus mores referre: aliquem reddere et referre: to take after the father, patris similem fieri (☞ comical, patrissare); in anything, patrem in aliqua re imitari: he takes more after his mother than after his father, matris similior est quam patris.