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Latin Verbs

comedô, comesse, comêdî, comêsum (or comestum)—devour    active singular       active plural       passive singular       passive plural     present indicative comedô comedimus comês comêstis comêst comêdunt comeditur comeduntur  imperfect indicative  comedêbam comedêbâmus comedêbâs comedêbâtis comedêbat comedêbant comedêbâtur comedêbantur  future indicative comedam comedêmus comedês comedêtis comedet comedent comedêtur comedentur  perfect indicative comêdî comêdimus comêdistî comêdistis comêdit comêdêrunt (-re) comêsus* est comêsî* sunt  pluperfect indicative  comêderam comêderâmus comêderâs comêderâtis comêderat comêderant comêsus erat comêsî erant   future perf. indic. comêderô comêderimus comêderis comêderitis comêderit comêderint comêsus erit comêsî erunt  present subjunctive comedam (or -im) comedâmus (or -imus) comedâs (or -is) comedeâtis (or -itis) comedat (or -it) comedant (or -int) comedâtur comedantur  imperfect subjunctive comessem comessêmus comessês comessêtis comesset comessent comessêtur comessentur  perfect subjunctive comêderim comêderimus comêderis comêderitis comêderit comêderint comêsus sit comêsî sint  pluperfect subjunctive comêduissem comêdissêmus comêdissês comêdissêtis comêdisset comêdissent comêsus esset comêsî essent  imperatives         2 comêdê comêdête         2, 3 comestô comestôte  infinitives         present comesse comedî         perfect comêdisse comêsus esse         future comêsûrus* esse  participles         present comedêns (-tis)         perfect comêsus*         future comêsûrus* comêdendus* *declines regularly—like bonus (-a, -um). gerund: comêdendî, –ô, um, –ô      supine: comêsum, –û com-edo, êdî, êsum (comessum, Prol. ad Plaut. p 102 Ritschl), or estum, 3, v., n. and a. (comesus, the more usual form, Cato, R. R. 58; Varr R. R. 1, 2, 11; Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5, Juv 1, 34; Valgius ap. Diom. p. 382 P.—Hence, comessurus, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 25: I. comestus, Cato, R. R 50 ; Cic. Clu. 62, 173, acc. to Prisc. p. 893; and Val. Max. 9, 12, ext. 6, and Didius ap. Diom. l. l.—Contr. forms: comes, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 11: comest, id. ib. 3, 1, 26; id. Trin. 2, 1, 20, id. Truc. 2, 7, 36; Lucil, Titin., Afran., Varr., Cic. Hortens. ap. Non p. 81, 9 sq., comestis, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 54: comesse, id. Cas. 4, 1, 21 ; id. Bacch. 4, 1, 8, id. Most. 1, 1, 13; id. Men. 4, 2, 64; Cic. Fl. 36, 91; Cat. 23, 4: comesses, Mart. 5, 39, 10: comesset, Cic. Sest. 51, 110, Cat. 29, 15: comesto, Cato, R. R. 156, 1.—Old forms: comedim, Plaut. Curc. 4, 4, 4; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 91; Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 83, 32 comedis, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 65: comedint, id. Truc. 2, 6, 53 ), to eat entirely up, to eat, consume (class.; esp. freq. in Plaut.). I. Prop.: ubi oleae comesae erunt, Cato, R. R. 58: ubi daps profanata comestaque erit, id. ib. 50: quod bibit, quod comest, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 20: corbitam cibi Comesse possunt, id. Cas. 4, 1, 21: quid comedent? Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 14: celerius potuit (venenum) comestum quam epotum in venas permanare? Cic. Clu. 62, 173: ex se enim natos comesse fingitur solitus (Saturnus), id. N. D. 2, 25, 64: quorum Dentes vel silicem comesse possunt. Cat. 23, 4: haec porcis hodie comedenda relinques, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 19: te muscae comedissent, Sicinius ap. Cic. Brut. 60, 217; and ap. Quint. 11, 3, 129: panem, Afer ap. Quint. 6, 3, 93.—Facetiously: lacertum Largii, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 240.—b. Prov.: tam facile vinces quam pirum volpes comest, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 32; and: cenâ comesâ venire, i.e. to come too late; post festum, a day after the fair, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 11.— B. Trop.: comedere aliquem oculis, to devour with one's eyes, i.e. to long eagerly for, Mart. 9, 60, 3: se, to consume one's self (by grief, sorrow, etc.), to waste or pine away, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 36; so Cic. Hortens. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 81, 29.— II. Meton., to waste, dissipate, spend, squander: comedunt quod habent, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 6 ; cf.: aurum in lustris, id. Bacch. 4, 4, 91. meam dotem comest, Titin. ap. Non. p. 81, 16: paternam pecuniam, Novius ap. Non. p. 81, 25: nummos, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 25: cura ut valeas, ne ego te jacente bona tua comedim, id. ib. 9, 20, 3: beneficia Caesaris, id. Phil. 11, 14, 37: patrimonium, id. Sest. 52, 111; Quint. 6, 3, 74: rem (sc. familiarem), Cic. Fam. 11, 21, 2: bona, id. Sest. 51, 110; id. Fl. 36, 91; id. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 83, 32; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 40: cantherium, i.e. its value in money, Cic. Fam. 9, 18, 4.—Hence, B. Transf. in the lang. of comedy: comedere aliquem, to waste or consume the property of any person, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 65; id. Most. 1, 1, 11 sq.; id. Ps. 4, 7, 25; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 57. from the 1933 impression of the first edition (Oxford, 1879) of A Latin Dictionary Founded on Andrew's Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten by Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL.D.