desume
English
Etymology
Latin desumere; de + sumere (“to take”).
Verb
desume (third-person singular simple present desumes, present participle desuming, simple past and past participle desumed)
- (obsolete) To select; to borrow.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for desume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Italian
Verb
desume
- third-person singular present indicative of desumere
Anagrams
- meduse
Latin
Verb
dēsūme
- second-person singular present active imperative of dēsūmō