insum
See also: in sum
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈĩː.sũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈin.sum]
Verb
īnsum (present infinitive inesse, perfect active īnfuī, future active participle īnfutūrus); irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, no gerund
- to be in, to be on
- to belong to, be involved in or with
- c. 50 BCE – 19 BCE, Albius Tibullus, III 4.47–49:
- etsi perque suos fallax iuravit ocellos
Iunonemque suam perque suam Venerem,
nulla fidem inerit- Even if the deceitful one has sworn both by her eyes
and her Juno and her Venus
there will be no faith in [her]
- Even if the deceitful one has sworn both by her eyes
- etsi perque suos fallax iuravit ocellos
Conjugation
Conjugation of īnsum (irregular conjugation, suppletive, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle, no gerund)
1Old Latin or in poetry.
References
- “insum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “insum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “insum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.