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Latin
Etymology
From ad- + tollō.
Verb
attollō (present infinitive attollere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- to lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rear
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.688-689:
- Illa, gravēs oculōs cōnāta attollere rūrsus
dēficit; īnfīxum strīdit sub pectore vulnus.- had tried to lift her heavy eyes again, swoons — the deep-driven wound gasping beneath her breast.
(For lifting of the eyes, cf. Aeneid 5.847: “attollens … lumina”.)
Conjugation
References
- “attollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “attollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- attollo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: oculos tollere, attollere ad caelum