revello Latin · revision 31692

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=la vellō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈwɛl.loː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈvɛl.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''revellō''' (present infinitive revellere, perfect active revellī, supine revolsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''revellī'', and Seneca has ''revulsī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|vellō|t2=to pluck, tear]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces ⟨vellō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*welnō|alt=*weln-e/o-]] and a nasal present of [[ine-pro|*welh₃-|alt=*uelh3-|t=to strike]], cognate with [[hit|u̯alh-|t=to hit, strike]] and [[grc|ἁλίσκομαι|tr=halískomai|t=to be caught]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Ennius,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Annals'' have a head torn from the neck.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “to tear loose, wrench off”, as Varro's man trying in vain to tear off his fetters, and to tear up something rooted or embedded, as tombs torn up in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and an iron point pulled from the bone in Ovid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of pulling weapons from a body.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of persons it is “to tear away” from a place, as in Virgil's “those I could hardly tear from the city of Sidon”, and Seneca of tearing ourselves from folly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of a head torn off.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of fetters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of people torn from their city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of tearing oneself from folly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tear loose, [[m|en|wrench]] off, tear down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To tear up, pull out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To tear away a person from a place or way of life.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To disturb, [[m|en|violate]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vellō]]

+ * [[dīvellō]]

+ * [[āvellō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}