spend Copy link Outline I. To lay out1. impendo, di, sum, 32. ērŏgo, 1 (esp. of expenditure of public money3. insūmo, mpsi, mptum, 34. expr. by sumptus, impensa, and a verbII. To employ or pass time1. ăgo, 32. trādūco, xi, ctum, 33. tĕro, contĕro, trīvi, tum, 3 (to wear or pass away4. consūmo, 3 (to take up5. impendo, 3 (to devote time, as one would lay out moneyIII. To exhaust • spend: I. To lay out: 1. impendo, di, sum, 3: to s. money, labour, on anything, pecuniam, operam in aliquam rem i., Cic. Verr. 4, 30, 68: also, sumptum impendere [ad incertum casum], ib. 3, 98, 227: to s. one's life for one's country, vitam patriae i., Lucan. 2. ērŏgo, 1 (esp. of expenditure of public money: the strict sense being, to ask for a grant: also in ord. sense): to s. money on anything, in aliquam rem pecuniam e., Cic. Fl. 13, init.: also, in sumptum e., id. Att. 8, 5, fin.: Liv. 3. insūmo, mpsi, mptum, 3: to s. 100 asses a day, in singulos dies centenos aeris i., Gell. 2, 24: more fully, in aliquam rem sumptum i., Cic. Inv. 2, 38: to s. one's labour in vain, operam frustra i., Liv. 10, 18, extr.: to s. a few days in refitting the fleet, paucos dies reficiendae classi i., Tac. Also, simply, sumo: esp. in phrr. operam s., Ter.: laborem s., Caes. (Not absumo, consumo, in present sense: cf. infr.) 4. expr. by sumptus, impensa, and a verb: not to s. more than 100 asses on a supper, non amplius in singulas coenas sumptus facere quam centenos aeris, Gell. 2, 24 (cf. supr. exx.): to s. money on anything, in aliqua re impensam facere, Cic. Att. 13, 25. Join: impensam ac sumptum in aliqua re facere, Varr. II. To employ or pass time: 1. ăgo, 3: to s. one's life at home, aetatem domi a., Cic. Fam. 7, 6: to s. one's life in literary pursuits, aetatem in literis a., id. Leg. 2, 1, 3. Comps.: (1.) dēgo, 1, 3 (to s. throughout, to the end): to s. the day in merriment, diem in laetitia d., Ter. Ad. 4, 1, 6: so, omne tempus aetatis d., Cic. Sen. 1, 2: Lucr.: Hor. (2.) transĭgo, ēgi, actum, 3 (to go through with: not in Cic.): he spent all his youth in the following pursuits, adolescentiam omnem per haec transegit, Suet. Tib. 7: Tac.: Sen. (3.) exĭgo, 3 (to the end, to complete): Plin. Ep. 2. trādūco, xi, ctum, 3: to s. an easy and quiet life, otiosam vitam et quietam tr., Cic. Sen. 23, 82: Tac.: Hor. Less freq. simple verb: to s. one's life in literature, aetatem in litteris ducere, Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 50: Hor. 3. tĕro, contĕro, trīvi, tum, 3 (to wear or pass away: often with the idea of wasting time): to s. one's leisure in banqueting and carousing, otium conviviis comissationibusque terere, Liv. 1, 57: Cic.: to s. all one's leisure in study, omne otiosum tempus in studiis conterere, Cic. Am. 27, 104: to s. one's whole life in acquiring, omnem aetatem in quaerendo conterere, Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 15. 4. consūmo, 3 (to take up: in quite neutral sense: thus differing from tero, contero): to s. many hours in delightful converse, multas horas suavissimo sermone c., Cic. Fam. 11, 27: to s. ten days over anything, x. dies in aliqua re c., Caes. B. G. 5, 9: to s. two consecutive days in feasting, biduum continuum epulando c., Suet. Less freq. simple verb: hilarem sumamus (= consumamus) diem (let us s. a merry day), Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 68: and esp. with the notion of taking up the time of another, absumo: Cic. Quint. 10, init.: also = to waste, Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 3 (quot dies quam frigidis rebus absumpsi!): and in Liv., without any accessory idea = consumo: cf. 27, 13, ad init.: etc. 5. impendo, 3 (to devote time, as one would lay out money: late): I spent the rest of the time in study, reliquum tempus studiis impendi, Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 1: Tac.: Vell. (spatium aevi in aliquod opus i.). Phr.: I would sooner s. one day with you ..., unum tecum diem libentius posuerim ..., Cic. Fam. 5, 21, init.: to s. one's leisure with any one, otio cum aliquo abuti, id. Rep. 1, 9: while (this and that is done) a whole hour is spent (lost), dum ... tota abit hora, Hor. S. 1, 5, 14: to s. the night anywhere, pernoctare alicubi, Cic. Clu. 13, 37: or when the reference is to a journey, to make a stage of any place simply manere, Hor. S. 1, 5, 37. and 87: I spent three days with him, triduum cum eo fui (R. and A.): if = at his house, apud eum. III. To exhaust: effundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3: (Entellus) spent his strength upon the air, vires in ventum effudit, Virg. Aen. 5, 446: cf. Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 7, odium me effudisse omne arbitrabar (I thought I had spent the whole force of my hatred): v. to exhaust. Esp. as verb refl., to s. itself: of a force of some kind: perh. rĕmittere (se): cf. Cic. Br. 34, 130, Calvinus ... quum remiserant dolores pedum, non deerat in causis: Cels.: as the fury of the storm gradually spent itself, *paullatim se remittente vi tempestatis (v. to abate): or, dēcēdĕre: cf. Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 55, decedet jam ira haec (this passion will s. itself): or use pass. of absūmo, exhaurio, effundo: the force of the blow spent itself in the air, ictus vis in ventum effusa, cf. Virg. l. c.: the blow was all but spent, *tantum non absumptus erat impetus teli (gladii, etc.): Phr.: the heated passions of youth s. themselves, defervescunt adolescentiae cupiditates, Cic. Coel. 18, 43: Ter.: so, desaevire (to s. its fury), Lucan 5, 303: of passionate grief, suas vires frangere, Sen. Cons. Helv. init.