percalleo
Latin
Etymology
From per- + calleō (“understand”), from callum (“hardened skin; callousness”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛrˈkal.le.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [perˈkal.le.o]
Verb
percalleō (present infinitive percallēre, perfect active percalluī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- (transitive) to know or understand well
Conjugation
Related terms
See also
- percallēscō
References
- “percalleo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- percalleo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.