compello

• conpellō

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From con- (“together”) +‎ pellō (“drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach”).

compellō (present infinitive compellere, perfect active compulī, supine compulsum); third conjugation

1. to gather, collect, push together

   Synonyms: contrahō, conferō, convehō, cōnstruō, glomerō, congerō, cōgō, reficiō

2. to compel, reduce to a certain condition or state by force

   Synonyms: impingō, perpellō, cōgō, impellō, subigō

3. to urge

   Synonyms: instigo, sollicito, excio, ădhortor, instinguo, perpello, inflammo, excito, concitō, concieō

From con- (“together”) +‎ pellō (“push, drive, hurl”) +‎ -ō, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach”).

compellō (present infinitive compellāre, perfect active compellāvī, supine compellātum); first conjugation

1. to address, accost

   Synonym: appellō

2. to challenge
3. to rebuke

   Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, perstringō, arguō, corripiō, accūsō, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, increpō, acclāmō, inclāmō, reprehendō, animadvertō

4. to insult, scold

   Synonyms: īnsultō, exsecror, maledicō, obloquor, invehō, intrahō, incessō

   Antonym: benedīcō

5. to accuse

   Synonyms: condemnō, criminor, obloquor, arripiō, corripiō, pulsō, accūsō, incūsō, obiectō, arcesso, arguō

• appellō
• interpellō

• “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 Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• compello in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• compello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “compel”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.