SPEND Copy link • SPENDTo lay out, apply, convertere aliquid in aliquem rem: conferre aliquid ad aliquem rem: ponere, collocare, consumere, conterere aliquid in aliqua re: adhibere, impendere aliquid alicui rei: erogare aliquid in aliquam rem (☞ not alicui rei; e.g., in ludos, not ludis). To pass (time), degere: agere: transigere (e.g., diem, vitam, or aetatem). To spend, (time) in anything or with anyone, (tempus) ducere aliqua re (e.g., noctem jucundis sermonibus); consumere or conterere aliqua re or in aliqua re (to consume, bestow upon anything, or, in a bad sense, to throw it away): absumere aliqua re (to spend uselessly, to waste; e.g., tempus dicendo, diem frigidis rebus): extrahere aliqua re (to wear out, to protract, without any result; always used of spending time in talk, etc., instead of action). To spend one’s whole life in study, totam vitam in studiis litterarum conterere, absumere, or consumere; aetatem ducere in litteris: to spend one’s life in idleness and entertainments, vitam in otio et conviviis agere: to spend one’s life in travelling, aetatem suam consumere in perpetua peregrinatione: to spend whole days over the fire, totos dies juxta focum atque ignem agere: to spend the whole day in running about, totum diem cursando atque ambulando conterere: to spend a day with anyone, diem cum aliquo ponere (Cic., ad Fam., 5, 21, 3): I spent three days with him, triduum cum eo fui: let us spend this day merrily, hilare hunc consumamus diem (after Terentianus, Ad., 2, 4, 23, where sumamus is only poetic; Vid: Ruhnken. in loc.): to spend the night in a place, pernoctare aliquo loco (to pass the night); manere aliquo loco (to remain anywhere during the night; e.g., in tabernaculo; inter vicos et vias; usually with the idea that one cannot travel further or find a lodging elsewhere; Vid: Ruhnken: Suet., Caes., 39): to spend the night with anyone, pernoctare cum aliquo or apud aliquem. To SPEND ITSELF, absumi: consumi.