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English word consumption comes from Latin consumo, and later Latin consumptio (Consumption (act of consuming). Employing, use. Wasting.)

consumo (Latin)

(of food) I eat, consume, devour.. (of people) I waste, weaken, enervate.. (of time) I spend, consume, pass.. I consume, devour, waste, squander, use up; annihilate, destroy, bring to naught, kill.. I take wholly or completely.

consumptio (Latin)

Consumption (act of consuming). Employing, use. Wasting.

consumpcion (Old French)

consumption (English)

(pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.. (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis & other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection &c.. The act of consuming, i.e., burning something.. The act of eating, drinking or using.. The amount consumed.

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