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Italian
Contraction
pello
- (dated) contraction of per lo
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *pelnō or *pelnaō, a nasal-infix present derived from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive, strike, thrust”). See Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō), πελεμίζω (pelemízō, “shake, cause to tremble”), ψάλλω (psállō), Latin palpō. Unrelated to πέλω (pélō), which means "to stir."
Pronunciation
Verb
pellō (present infinitive pellere, perfect active pepulī, supine pulsum); third conjugation
- to push, drive, hurl, impel, propel; expel, banish, eject, thrust out
- Synonyms: exigō, ablēgō, exsulō, expellō, exportō, āmoveō, auferō, eximō, fugō, ēiciō
- to strike, set in motion
- (military) to rout, put to flight, discomfit
- (music) to strike the chords, play
- (figuratively) to touch, move, affect, impress
- to beat, strike
- Synonyms: percello, percutio, ferio, pulsō, discutio, accido, affligo, tango, impingo, ico, verbero
- (figuratively) to conquer, overcome, defeat
- Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, ēvincō, expugnō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, exsuperō, obruō, opprimō, premō, fundō
Conjugation
Note that pluperfect active indicative pepulerat has the alternative form pulserat and that the perfect active indicative pepulī has the alternative form polsī.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “pello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make an impression on the senses: sensus movere (more strongly pellere)
- to strike the strings of the lyre: pellere nervos in fidibus
- to make an impression on a person's mind: alicuius animum pellere
- to turn a person out of his house, his property: expellere aliquem domo, possessionibus pellere
- to banish a person, send him into exile: ex urbe (civitate) expellere, pellere aliquem
- to repulse the enemy: pellere hostem