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Italian
Verb
depello
- first-person singular present indicative of depellere
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + pellō (“push, drive”).
Pronunciation
Verb
dēpellō (present infinitive dēpellere, perfect active dēpulī, supine dēpulsum); third conjugation
- to drive out or away; remove, expel, repel
- to drive, thrust or cast down
- (military) to drive or push away or dislodge an enemy from his position
- to thrust out or remove from a situation, avert
- to deter, divert, dissuade from
- to 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, 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)