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Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of”) + pellō (“drive out”).
Pronunciation
Verb
expellō (present infinitive expellere, perfect active expulī, supine expulsum); third conjugation
- to drive or thrust out or away; expel, eject, banish; dislodge
- Synonyms: ablēgō, exsulō, exportō, pellō, eximō, fugō, āmoveō, auferō, ēiciō
- (figuratively) to force or drive out or away, expel, remove
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References
- “expello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to turn a person out of his house, his property: expellere aliquem domo, possessionibus pellere
- to banish a person, send him into exile: in exsilium eicere or expellere aliquem
- to banish a person, send him into exile: ex urbe (civitate) expellere, pellere aliquem
- to depose a king: aliquem regno spoliare or expellere (Div. 1. 22. 74)