divello

divello

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diˈvɛl.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛllo
  • Hyphenation: di‧vèl‧lo

Verb

divello

  1. first-person singular present indicative of divellere

Latin

Etymology

    From dis- + vellō.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    dīvellō (present infinitive dīvellere, perfect active dīvellī, supine dīvulsum); third conjugation

    1. to rend; tear apart, asunder, away or in pieces; remove
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.220:
        “Ille simul manibus tendit dīvellere nōdōs [...].”
        “As [Laocoön] struggles with his hands to tear apart the [serpents’] knots [...].”
    2. to estrange, alienate

    Conjugation

    Descendants

    • English: divel
    • ? Italian: divellere

    References

    • divello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • divello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • divello”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to feel acute pain: doloribus premi, angi, ardere, cruciari, distineri et divelli