depello
Italian
Verb
depello
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + pellō (“push, drive”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deːˈpel.loː/, [d̪eːˈpɛlːʲoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈpel.lo/, [d̪eˈpɛlːo]
Verb
dēpellō (present infinitive dēpellere, perfect active dēpulī, supine dēpulsum); third conjugation
- I drive out or away; remove, expel, repel.
- I drive, thrust or cast down.
- (military) I drive or push away or dislodge an enemy from his position.
- I thrust out or remove from a situation, avert.
- I deter, divert, dissuade from.
- I remove from the breast, wean.
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References
- “depello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “depello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- depello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
- to be forced to change one's mind: de sententia deici, depelli, deterreri
- to banish grief: dolorem abicere, deponere, depellere
- to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
- to lose hope: spe deici, depelli, deturbari
- to clear oneself of a suspicion: suspicionem a se removere, depellere, propulsare (Verr. 3. 60. 140)
- to meet force by force: vim vi depellere
- to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem gradu movere, depellere or de gradu (statu) deicere
- to deliver some one from slavery: ab aliquo servitutem or servitutis iugum depellere
- to drive the enemy from his position: loco movere, depellere, deicere hostem (B. G. 7. 51)
- to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione