evello

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eˈvɛl.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛllo
  • Hyphenation: e‧vèl‧lo

Verb

evello

  1. first-person singular present indicative of evellere

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *eɣwelnō. By surface analysis, ē- +‎ vellō.

Pronunciation

Verb

ēvellō (present infinitive ēvellere, perfect active ēvellī, supine ēvulsum); third conjugation

  1. to tear, pull or pluck out
    Sī quandō in puerīs ante alter dēns nāscitur quam prior excidat, is quī cadere dēbuit ēvellendus est.
    If ever in children a second tooth appears before the earlier one has fallen out, the one which ought to have fallen out must be uprooted.
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.25:
      Gallis magno ad pugnam erat impedimento quod pluribus eorum scutis uno ictu pilorum transfixis et conligatis, cum ferrum se inflexisset, neque evellere neque sinistra impedita satis commode pugnare poterant, multi ut diu iactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare.
      It was a great hindrance to the Gauls in fighting, that, when several of their bucklers had been by one stroke of the (Roman) javelins pierced through and pinned fast together, as the point of the iron had bent itself, they could neither pluck it out, nor, with their left hand entangled, fight with sufficient ease; so that many, after having long tossed their arm about, chose rather to cast away the buckler from their hand, and to fight with their person unprotected.
  2. to erase or eradicate

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *exvellere
  • Italian: evellere

References

  • evello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • evello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • evello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to relieve a man of his scruple: scrupulum ex animo alicuius evellere (Rosc. Am. 2. 6)
    • to destroy superstition root and branch: superstitionem radicitus or penitus evellere