divello

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diˈvɛl.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛllo
  • Hyphenation: di‧vèl‧lo

Verb

divello

  1. first-person singular present indicative of divellere

Latin

Etymology

From dis- +‎ vellō.

Pronunciation

Verb

dīvellō (present infinitive dīvellere, perfect active dīvellī, future participle dīvulsūrus); third conjugation

  1. 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 .”
  2. to estrange, alienate

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: divel
  • Italian: divellere

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