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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin convellere (“to shatter, convulse”), derived from vellō (“to pluck out; to depilate; to pull or tear down”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈvɛl.le.re/
- Rhymes: -ɛllere
- Hyphenation: con‧vèl‧le‧re
Verb
convellére (first-person singular present convèllo, no past historic, no past participle)
- (literary, transitive) to twist
- Synonym: contorcere
Conjugation
Further reading
- convellere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- convellere in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2007
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
convellēre
- inflection of convellō:
- third-person plural perfect active indicative
- second-person singular future passive indicative
Verb
convellere
- inflection of convellō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative