noun
sumptio
Meaning
- a taking.
sumptio (collat. form sumpsio, Cato, R. R. 145, 2), ōnis, f. sumo,
I. a taking.
II. Trop., in logic, a premise taken for granted, an assumption: demus tibi istas duas sumptiones, ea quae λήμματα appellant dialectici;
sed nos Latine loqui malumus, Cic. Div. 2, 53, 108.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
sūmptiō ōnis, f
sumo, a taking .—Fig., in logic, an assumption, major premise .