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Latin
Etymology
From re- + vellō (“pluck out”).
Pronunciation
Verb
revellō (present infinitive revellere, perfect active revellī, supine revolsum); third conjugation
- to pluck or pull out
- to wrench out
- to disturb, violate
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.427:
- “ nec patris Anchīsae cinerem mānīsve revellī, .”
- “ neither did I violate the ashes nor the shade of his father Anchises, .”
(Dido is speaking rhetorically as if she had done an injustice to the family of Aeneas.)
Conjugation
References
- “revello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “revello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- revello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to burst open the door: ianuam effringere, revellere
- to break down the gates: claustra portarum revellere