propello
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proˈpɛl.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
- Hyphenation: pro‧pèl‧lo
Verb
propello
- first-person singular present indicative of propellere
Latin
Etymology
From prō- + pellō (“push, drive”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [proːˈpɛl.loː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [proˈpɛl.lo]
Verb
prōpellō (present infinitive prōpellere, perfect active prōpulī, supine prōpulsum); third conjugation
- to drive, push or urge forth or forward; hurl, propel
- to hurl or cast down, overthrow, expel
- to drive on, impel, incite, urge
- to drive away, keep or ward off
Conjugation
Conjugation of prōpellō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: propel
- Italian: propellere
- Portuguese: propelir
References
- “propello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “propello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- propello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to row: navem remis agere or propellere
- to row: navem remis agere or propellere