transumo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

transūmo or trans-sūmo, ĕre, v. a.,

to take from one to another; to adopt , assume (poet. and post-Aug.): hastam laevā, Stat. Th. 3, 292: mutatos cultus, id. ib. 2, 242.