extollo

extollo

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Latin tollō
Latin extollō

    From ex- + tollō.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    extollō (present infinitive extollere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

    1. to elevate
    2. to erect (a building)
    3. to exalt, extol
      Antonym: ēlevō
      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 9.37:
        Paucis milites adloquitur; Samnitium bella extollit, elevat Etruscos; nec hostem hosti nec multitudinem multitudini comparandam ait; esse praeterea telum aliud occultum; scituros in tempore; interea taceri opus esse.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

    Conjugation

       Conjugation of extollō (third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems)
    indicative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present extollō extollis extollit extollimus extollitis extollunt
    imperfect extollēbam extollēbās extollēbat extollēbāmus extollēbātis extollēbant
    future extollam extollēs extollet extollēmus extollētis extollent
    passive present extollor extolleris,
    extollere     		extollitur extollimur extolliminī extolluntur
    imperfect extollēbar extollēbāris,
    extollēbāre     		extollēbātur extollēbāmur extollēbāminī extollēbantur
    future extollar extollēris,
    extollēre     		extollētur extollēmur extollēminī extollentur
    subjunctive singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present extollam extollās extollat extollāmus extollātis extollant
    imperfect extollerem extollerēs extolleret extollerēmus extollerētis extollerent
    passive present extollar extollāris,
    extollāre     		extollātur extollāmur extollāminī extollantur
    imperfect extollerer extollerēris,
    extollerēre     		extollerētur extollerēmur extollerēminī extollerentur
    imperative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present — extolle — — extollite —
    future — extollitō extollitō — extollitōte extolluntō
    passive present — extollere — — extolliminī —
    future — extollitor extollitor — — extolluntor
    non-finite forms infinitive participle
    active passive active passive
    present extollere extollī extollēns —
    future — — — extollendus,
    extollundus
    verbal nouns gerund supine
    genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
    extollendī extollendō extollendum extollendō — —

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → English: extol

    References

    • “extollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “extollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “extollo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to exaggerate a thing: in maius ferre, in maius extollere aliquid
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