compello
Latin edit
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /komˈpel.loː/, [kɔmˈpɛlːʲoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /komˈpel.lo/, [komˈpɛlːo]
Etymology 1 edit
From con- (“together”) + pellō (“drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach”).
Verb edit
compellō (present infinitive compellere, perfect active compulī, supine compulsum); third conjugation
- to gather, collect, push together
- to compel, reduce to a certain condition or state by force
- to urge
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Etymology 2 edit
From con- (“together”) + pellō (“push, drive, hurl”) + -ō, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach”).
Verb edit
compellō (present infinitive compellāre, perfect active compellāvī, supine compellātum); first conjugation
- to address, accost
- Synonym: appellō
- to challenge
- to rebuke
- Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, perstringō, arguō, corripiō, accūsō, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, increpō, acclāmō, inclāmō, reprehendō, animadvertō
- to insult, scold
- to accuse
- to compel, incite, impel, drive, force
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References edit
- “compello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compello in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- compello in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- compello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
- to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
- “compel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.