evello Latin · revision 32214

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ul-n(e)-h₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēvellō''' (present infinitive ēvellere, perfect active ēvellī, supine ēvulsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''ēvellī'' in Cicero and ''ēvulsī'' (''ēvolsī'') from Seneca and Florus on.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ Plautus has the spelling ''exvello''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|vellō|t1=out|t2=to pluck]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vellō]] to [[itc-pro|*weln-e/o-]] and a nasal present [[ine-pro|*ul-n(e)-h₃-|t=to strike]];^(de Vaan 2008) Schrijver prefers a form with a dental.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[spx|ehuelí|t=tears down]], [[hit|walh-|t=to hit, strike]] and [[grc|ἁλίσκομαι|tr=halískomai|t=to be caught]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Plautus' ''Truculentus'': “I'll tear your curls out right from your brain”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to tear out by the roots or pull out, as Livy's tree, Pliny the Elder's teeth, and Cicero's report of a boast of having torn out Cato's tongue; it is also to tear away what is fixed, as Caesar's iron pulled out and Cicero's censer returned with its ornament torn off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of a letter that elegant usage has removed from certain words, and figuratively of rooting out established opinions.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to pull, pluck out, tear.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of tearing out curls.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a censer stripped and of opinions rooted out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of a spear pulled out.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of an uprooted tree.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tear out by the roots, pull or pluck out, [[m|en|uproot]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To tear out or away something fixed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To take out; figuratively, to root out, [[m|en|eradicate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēvulsiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vello|alt=vellō]]

+ * [[convello|alt=convellō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}