A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Sumptus,-us (s.m.IV), abl.sg. sumptu: cost, charge, expense; “the spending of money, expenditure, outlay; resources allowed to a person to meet his costs, expenses; the money spent on supplying a customer with goods” (Glare); ); cf. impensa,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. impensa, outlay, cost, expense; see expense; see expense;

- [Asarum] radicem quam folia mitiorem deprehendimus: moriebatur hypercatharsi vir quidam robustus qui cochlear unum foliorum pulveris sumpserat, frustra datis Antidotis. Wedelius de S. Med.fac. p. 158. Adnotavit & ad me transmisit D. Edv. Hulse (Ray), we understand the root is milder than the leaves: a certain robust man died from excessive defecation who had taken one spoonful of the powder of the leaves, with an antidote [i.e. counterpoison] having been given to no avail.

- meo sumptu; meis sumptibus, “at my, somebody’s expense."

- magno sumptu, at great cost; parvo sumpto, at little cost

- sumptu auctoris, at the author's expense (Stearn).

- sporophyta sumptu gametophyti crescentia, sporophyte growing at the expense of the gametophyte.

- “Cura et sumptibus Societatis Literatae = By the care and expense of the Literary Society” (Maxwell 1998).

- sumptibus H. Maynardi = [Published] at the expense of H. Maynard (Maxwell 1998).

- SUMPTIBUS KUMMERIANIS 1805, at the expense Kummeriani (the publishers).

-ERLANGAE SUMPTU JO. JACOBI PALMII venditur etiam Londini apud Benj. White et filium (Swartz), at Erlangen [Germany] at the expense of Johannes Jacob Palmius also sold in London at the place [of business] of Benjamin White and son [Londinum,-i (s.n.II].

- Parisiis, Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz, rue de Bourbon, n° 17. Venitque in Eorundem Bibliopoliis Argentorati et Londini. MDCCCXXIV, at Paris, at the expense of Treuttel and Wurtz, associates, rue de Bourbon, number 17. And is sold in the Booksellers of the same [i.e. men] at Strasbourg and London 1824.

- COLONIÆ, Sumptibus PHILIPPI GOTHOFREDI SAURMANNI, Bibliopol. Bremensis. ANNO MD C XCV, at Cologne [Germany] at the expense of Philip Gothofred Saurmann, Bookseller. Bremen. In the year 1645.

- Sumptibus Matthei Rieger et filiorum = At the expense of Matthew Rieger and his sons) (Maxwell 1998).

sumptus,-a,-um (part.A): taken, assumed; chosen, selected; mentioned; purchased; undertaken [> L. sumo, sumpsi, sumptum, 3. to take, take up, assume (syn. capio); to take (by choice), to choose, select; assume claim, acquire, receive; to use, apply, employ; undertake, begin, enter upon; to take for granted, to assume; to cite as a proof, mention (Lewis & Short)];to take into one’s hands, etc., take up; to take (money, resources, etc.) from a source, purchase, get, procure; to borrow; to adopt; to take a responsibility upon oneself; + pro + abl., ‘taken for,’ ‘interpreted as;’ cf. habitus,-a,-um (part.A) taken for,’ ‘interpreted as’(pro + abl.);

- corpus teres, breve, testa vaginatum et intra cotyledones inclusum, a Thwaitesio aliisque descriptum et pro embryone sumptum, nobis potius radicula cum cotyledonum basibus continua videtur, the round, short body [sheathed with the testa] included within the cotyledones, by Thwaite and others described and taken for an embryo.

- sed characteres e stigmatis forma sumpti, nisi aliae notae accedant, hic nobis non magis valere videntur quam in Corydali v. in Dicentra (B&H); but the characters taken from the form of the stigma, unless other features occur, here seem by us to be no more strong than in Corydalis or in Dicentra.

- Genus habitu naturalissimum, sed characteres diagnostici a siliqua sumpti nulli vel decipientes (B&H); a genus most natural in general appearance, but the diagnostic characters taken from the siliqua are none or deceiving.

- ovarium tamen saepssime ut in aliis speciebus 2-loculare invenimus, et character e filamentis sumptus laevioris momenti videtur; we find the ovary, however, very often is as in other species 2-locular, and the character taken from the filaments seems of more trifling importance.

- Omnes ebracteatae sunt, sed characteres e carpellorum aristis v. eorum dehiscentia sumpti in aliis etiam speciebus observantur (B&H), all are ebracteate, but characters taken from the hairpoints of the carpels or the dehiscence of them are observed even in other species. sumendus,-a,-um (gerundive; adj.A): ‘to be taken;’

- (pharm.) Haustus statim sumendnus the draught to be taken immediately (Bennitt).

- (pharm.) C.m.s. (Cras mane sumendus,-a,-um), to be taken to-morrow morning (Bennitt).

- (pharm.) H. n. s. (Hac nocte sumendus,-a,-um), to be taken this night (Bennitt).

-[Chelidonium majus] Lobelius raro intus sumendam sentit Chelidoniam, sed commodius foris utendam ad impetigines & psoras puerorum (Ray), [Matthaeus] Lobelius unusually thinks Chelidonia is to be taken INTERNALLY, but more properly it is to be used externally for impetigo and the psora [i.e. psoriasis] of children.

sumi: present passive infinitive: taken taken up, assumed; chosen, selected; used, applied, employed; adopted;

- florum simplicium polypetalorum differentiae a similitudine cum alis rebus vulgo cognitis sumi possunt (Tourn.), the distinctions [i.e. distinguishing states] of the simple polypetalous flowers are adopted from the similarity with other things commonly known.

sumitur: third-person singular present passive indicative: [he/she] it is assumed; is chosen, etc.

sumpserat: third-person singular pluperfect active indicative: [he/she] it had taken; used; applied;

sumpsit: third person singular perfect active indicative: [he, she], it has taken, mentioned, etc. - nisi forte carpella pro fructibus perfectis sumpsit, unless by chance he took the carpels for perfect fruit.