propello

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /proˈpɛl.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛllo
  • Hyphenation: pro‧pèl‧lo

Verb

propello

  1. first-person singular present indicative of propellere

Latin

Etymology

From prō- +‎ pellō (push, drive).

Pronunciation

Verb

prōpellō (present infinitive prōpellere, perfect active prōpulī, supine prōpulsum); third conjugation

  1. to drive, push or urge forth or forward; hurl, propel
  2. to hurl or cast down, overthrow, expel
  3. to drive on, impel, incite, urge
  4. to drive away, keep or ward off

Conjugation

Derived 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