compello
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /komˈpel.loː/, [kɔmˈpɛlːʲoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈpel.lo/, [komˈpɛlːo]
Etymology 1
From con- (“together”) + pellō (“drive”).
Verb
compellō (present infinitive compellere, perfect active compulī, supine compulsum); third conjugation
Conjugation
Descendants
- Catalan: compel·lir
- English: compel
- Middle French: compellir
- Portuguese: compelir
- Spanish: compeler
Etymology 2
From con- (“together”) + pellō (“drive”) + -ō.
Verb
compellō (present infinitive compellāre, perfect active compellāvī, supine compellātum); first conjugation
Conjugation
References
- “compello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
- to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
- “compel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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- Latin 3-syllable words
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- Latin terms suffixed with -o (compound verb)
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- Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -av-
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook