sumemus

Sumemus is a Latin verb form rather than a standalone lexical item. It serves as the first-person plural future indicative active of the verb sumere, meaning to take, seize, obtain, or acquire. In English, sumemus is typically rendered as “we shall take” or “we will take.”

Grammatical notes

Sumere belongs to the third conjugation of Latin verbs. The future indicative endings for this conjugation give sumemus from the stem sum- with the ending -emus. As a result, sumemus denotes a future action performed by the subject “we.” It is distinct from the present indicative form sumus, which means “we are.”

Usage

Sumemus appears in classical and post-classical Latin in contexts describing future acts of taking or obtaining something. It is a grammatically specific form and would ordinarily occur within larger clauses rather than as an independent word. For example, a sentence might read: Pecuniam ex thesauro sumemus, meaning “We shall take money from the treasury.”

Related terms

- sumo, sumere, sumpsi, sumptum: the verb family to which sumemus belongs.

- sumus: the present indicative form “we are,” often confused with sumemus due to similarity in appearance.

See also

- Latin verbs and conjugation patterns

- Third conjugation (-ere) verbs

- Latin future indicative forms

Notes

Sumemus is primarily of interest for learners and scholars studying Latin verb morphology and sentence construction. It is not used as an independent headword in modern lexicons.