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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proˈpɛl.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
- Hyphenation: pro‧pèl‧lo
Verb
propello
- first-person singular present indicative of propellere
Latin
Etymology
From prō- + pellō (“push, drive”).
Pronunciation
Verb
prōpellō (present infinitive prōpellere, perfect active prōpulī, supine prōpulsum); third conjugation
- to drive, push or urge forth or forward; hurl, propel
- to hurl or cast down, overthrow, expel
- to drive on, impel, incite, urge
- to drive away, keep or ward off
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References
- “propello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “propello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- propello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to row: navem remis agere or propellere