avello Latin · revision 32083

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *uelh₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''āvellō''' (present infinitive āvellere, perfect active āvulsī, supine āvulsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''āvellī'' or ''āvolsī'' (''āvulsī''), the participle ''āvolsum'' (''āvulsum'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Horace has the old passive infinitive ''āvellier''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|vellō|t2=to pluck, pull]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vellō]] to [[itc-pro|*weln-e/o-]] and a nasal present of [[ine-pro|*uelh₃-|t=to strike]], which Latin may share with Tocharian.^(de Vaan 2008) 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 Terence,^(de Vaan 2008) who has a father hoping to tear his son away from a mistress, and a character who expects to wrest a farm from another.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to pluck off or out, tear or wrench away, of things and of parts of the body: Verres, says Cicero, tore off the figures and returned the rest of the silver.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it of a storm tearing away planks and beams.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of people it means to part or separate, and to wean from a habit, as Varro's nurse who does not suddenly tear children from the breast.^(OLD 2012) It also means to take away, wrest or extort.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it to separate, tear away, withdraw.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of tearing a person away and of wresting property.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of beams torn away.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of figures torn off silverware.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|pluck]] off or out, tear or [[m|en|wrench]] away.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To separate, part, tear away a person; to wean from a habit.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To take away, [[m|en|wrest]], extort.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vello|alt=vellō]]

+ * [[evello|alt=ēvellō]]

+ * [[revello|alt=revellō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}