# consumir
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnsūmere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kun.suˈmi]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kon.suˈmi]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kon.suˈmiɾ]
* Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

### Verb

consumir (first-person singular present consumeixo or consumo, first-person singular preterite consumí, past participle consumit)
* to consume

#### Derived terms

* consum
* consumidor

### Further reading

* “consumir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “consumir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “consumir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “consumir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese consumir, consomir, from Latin consumere.

### Verb

consumir (first-person singular present consumo, third-person singular present consome, first-person singular preterite consumín, past participle consumido) consumir (first-person singular present consumo, third-person singular present consome, first-person singular preterite consumim or consumi, past participle consumido, reintegrationist norm)
* to consume

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* consumidor
* consumo

#### Related terms

* sumir

### Further reading

* “consumir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “consumir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese consumir, consomir, from Latin cōnsūmere.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.suˈmi(ʁ)/ [kõ.suˈmi(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kõ.suˈmi(ʁ)/ [kõ.suˈmi(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kõ.suˈmi(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kõ.suˈmi(ʁ)/ [kõ.suˈmi(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kõ.suˈmi(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.suˈmiɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kõ.suˈmiɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kõ.suˈmi.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: con‧su‧mir

### Verb

consumir (first-person singular present consumo, third-person singular present consome, first-person singular preterite consumi, past participle consumido)
* to consume

#### Derived terms

* consumidor
* consumo

#### Descendants

* Macanese: consumí

### Further reading

* “consumir” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “consumir”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “consumir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnsūmere, although the base verb was inherited as sumir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /konsuˈmiɾ/ [kõn.suˈmiɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: con‧su‧mir

### Verb

consumir (first-person singular present consumo, first-person singular preterite consumí, past participle consumido)
* to consume

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* consumible
* consumición
* consumidor
* consumimiento
* consumo

#### Related terms

* consunción

### References

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “sumir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 337

### Further reading

* “consumir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10