subsume

See also subsumé

English

Etymology

From Late Latin subsumō, equivalent to the Latin sub- (“sub-”) and sūmō (“to take”), confer the English consume.

Verb

subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)

1. To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.
   • 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 453--468.

     no allusion is made to forms because Plato is subsuming under the class of productive crafts both divine and human imitation;

2. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate

Related terms

• subsumption

Translations

to place under another as belonging to it

• Dutch: onderbrengen (nl), plaatsen in (nl)
• Finnish: sisällyttää (fi), liittää (fi)
• French: subsumer (fr), impliquer (fr) (logic)
• German: einordnen (de), fassen (de), klassifizieren (de), subsumieren (de), zusammenfassen (de)
• Greek: υπάγω (el) (ypágo), εντάσσω (el) (entásso)
• Irish: fo-ghlac (ga)

• Italian: classificare (it)
• Portuguese: classificar (pt), incluir (pt), subordinar (pt)
• Russian: включать в какую-л. категорию (ru) (vključatʹ v kakuju-l. kategoriju)
• Swedish: sammanfatta (sv)
• Turkish: içine almak (tr), dâhil etmek (tr), ihtivâ etmek (tr), kapsamak (tr), sınıflandırmak (tr)

To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate

• Dutch: veralgemenen (nl), verenigen (nl)
• French: généraliser (fr), rejoindre (fr), colliger (fr)

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French

Verb

subsume

1. first-person singular present indicative of subsumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of subsumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of subsumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of subsumer
5. second-person singular imperative of subsumer