attollo

Latin

Alternative forms

adtollō
attolō

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Latin tollō

Latin attollō

From ad- + tollō.

Verb

attollō (present infinitive attollere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

to lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rear
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.688-689:
  Illa, gravēs oculōs cōnāta attollere rūrsus
  dēficit; īnfīxum strīdit sub pectore vulnus.
  [Dido, who] had tried to lift her heavy eyes again, swoons — the deep-driven wound gasping beneath her breast.
  (For lifting of the eyes, cf. Aeneid 5.847: “attollens … lumina”.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of attollō (third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	attollō	attollis		attollit	attollimus	attollitis		attollunt
	imperfect	attollēbam	attollēbās		attollēbat	attollēbāmus	attollēbātis		attollēbant
	future	attollam	attollēs		attollet	attollēmus	attollētis		attollent
passive	present	attollor	attolleris, attollere		attollitur	attollimur	attolliminī		attolluntur
	imperfect	attollēbar	attollēbāris, attollēbāre		attollēbātur	attollēbāmur	attollēbāminī		attollēbantur
	future	attollar	attollēris, attollēre		attollētur	attollēmur	attollēminī		attollentur
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	attollam	attollās		attollat	attollāmus	attollātis		attollant
active	imperfect	attollerem	attollerēs		attolleret	attollerēmus	attollerētis		attollerent
passive	present	attollar	attollāris, attollāre		attollātur	attollāmur	attollāminī		attollantur
passive	imperfect	attollerer	attollerēris, attollerēre		attollerētur	attollerēmur	attollerēminī		attollerentur
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	attolle		—	—	attollite		—
active	future	—	attollitō		attollitō	—	attollitōte		attolluntō
passive	present	—	attollere		—	—	attolliminī		—
passive	future	—	attollitor		attollitor	—	—		attolluntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		attollere		attollī		attollēns		—
future		—		—		—		attollendus, attollundus
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		attollendī	attollendō		attollendum	attollendō	—		—

References

“attollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“attollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“attollo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: oculos tollere, attollere ad caelum