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Latin
Etymology
From re- + fallō.
Pronunciation
Verb
refellō (present infinitive refellere, perfect active refellī); third conjugation, no supine stem
- to disprove, rebut, confute, refute, challenge, contradict
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.380:
- “ Neque tē teneō, neque dicta refellō.”
- “And neither do I detain you, nor refute what has been said.”
Conjugation
References
- “refello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “refello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "refello", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- refello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to refute arguments: argumenta refellere, confutare