Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
evello. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
evello, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
evello in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
evello you have here. The definition of the word
evello will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
evello, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈvɛl.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
- Hyphenation: e‧vèl‧lo
Verb
evello
- first-person singular present indicative of evellere
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *eɣwelnō.
Pronunciation
Verb
ēvellō (present infinitive ēvellere, perfect active ēvellī, supine ēvulsum); third conjugation
- to tear, pull or pluck out
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.25:
- Gallis magno ad pugnam erat impedimento quod pluribus eorum scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et conligatis, cum ferrum se inflexisset, neque evellere neque sinistra impedita satis commode pugnare poterant, multi ut diu iactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare.
- It was a great hindrance to the Gauls in fighting, that, when several of their bucklers had been by one stroke of the (Roman) javelins pierced through and pinned fast together, as the point of the iron had bent itself, they could neither pluck it out, nor, with their left hand entangled, fight with sufficient ease; so that many, after having long tossed their arm about, chose rather to cast away the buckler from their hand, and to fight with their person unprotected.
- to erase or eradicate
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “evello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “evello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- evello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to relieve a man of his scruple: scrupulum ex animo alicuius evellere (Rosc. Am. 2. 6)
- to destroy superstition root and branch: superstitionem radicitus or penitus evellere