Etymograph

English

transumpt

Transumpt comes from Latin trānsūmō ‘to take from one to another’, from emō ‘to buy, purchase’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁em-1‘to take’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁émeti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*emō1‘to take’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEemō1‘to buy, purchase’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūmō1‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim, arrogate’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānsūmō2as transumere‘to take from one to another’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1563transumpt2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin transumo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English transumpt
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1563, John Foxe, Answer of the Nobles of Bohemia: “As for the excommunication which he hath so long…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁em-Wiktionary, Latin transumo‘to take’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁émetiWiktionary, Latin transumoreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*emōWiktionary, Latin transumo‘to take’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEemōWiktionary, Latin transumo‘to buy, purchase’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūmōWiktionary, Latin transumo‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim, arrogate’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrānsūmōWiktionary, English transumptas transumere‘to take from one to another’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1563transumptWiktionary, English transumpt. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1563, John Foxe, Answer of the Nobles of Bohemia: “As for the excommunication which he hath so long…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take’

exempt, pommel, pomade, 53 more

through Proto-Italic *emō ‘to take’

presume, 44 more

through Latin emō ‘to buy, purchase’

premium, redemption, redeem, exemption, ransom, preemption, emptor, 39 more

through Latin sūmō ‘to take, take up, catch, assume, seize, claim,…’

assume, consumer, resume, assumption, consume, sumptuous, consumable, overconsumption, 32 more

Today it means

noun A copy or exemplification of a record.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “transumpt”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin transumo. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- / transumpt

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