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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈvɛl.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
- Hyphenation: di‧vèl‧lo
Verb
divello
- first-person singular present indicative of divellere
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + vellō.
Pronunciation
Verb
dīvellō (present infinitive dīvellere, perfect active dīvellī, supine dīvulsum); third conjugation
- to rend; tear apart, asunder, away or in pieces; remove
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.220:
- “Ille simul manibus tendit dīvellere nōdōs .”
- “As struggles with his hands to tear apart the knots .”
- to estrange, alienate
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “divello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “divello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- divello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to feel acute pain: doloribus premi, angi, ardere, cruciari, distineri et divelli