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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈvo.lo/
- Rhymes: -olo
- Hyphenation: in‧vó‧lo
Verb
involo
- first-person singular present indicative of involare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
in- + volō (“to fly”)
Pronunciation
Verb
involō (present infinitive involāre, perfect active involāvī, supine involātum); first conjugation
- (intransitive) to fly at, fly into, rush upon
- (transitive) to attack, seize, take possession of, carry off
Conjugation
1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
References
- “involo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “involo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers