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;

- 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.

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.);

‘sumpsit’ is the perfect active third person singular of sumo, ‘he, she, it’ has taken, mentioned, etc.

- 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.

- nisi forte carpella pro fructibus perfectis sumpsit, unless by chance he took the carpels for perfect fruit.

- 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.