Latin

Verb

epitomō ‎(present infinitive epitomāre, perfect active epitomāvī, supine epitomātum); first conjugation

1. (Late Latin, transitive) I abridge, I epitomize, I summarize, I epitomate, I abstract

Conjugation

Synonyms

• abbreviō, excerpō

Derived terms

• epitomātiō
• epitomātor

Descendants

• English: epitomate

References

• ĕpĭtŏmo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• EPITOMARE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• EPITOMO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ĕpĭtŏmo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 595/3.
• “epitomare” on page 378/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)