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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [rɛˈbɛl.loː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈbɛl.lo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''rebellō''' (present infinitive rebellāre, perfect active rebellāvī, supine rebellātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)
+ Some manuscripts spell it ''revellō''.^(TLL)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|re-|bellō|t2=to wage war]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) from [[m|la|bellum|t=war]], older ⟨duellum⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Priscian instead took it as compounded with the noun, like [[m|la|imbellis]] and [[m|la|rebellis]].^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Livy uses it often,^(Lewis & Short 1879) as of a people more ready to rebel than to make war.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is to rise up again against a conqueror, to revolt.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly post-Augustan and not in Cicero or Caesar;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius and Quintilian have it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ovid it is to renew a fight, as when a speaker changed into a bull fights again.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of things it is to resist or break out again: Pliny the Elder has diseases thought cured breaking out again, Seneca an ailment returning and shame resisting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has “rebel, renew a war”.^(Stelten 1995) Its derivative [[rebellis]] gave English [[m|en|rebel]] about 1300.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of peoples rising again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of renewing a fight.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of an ailment returning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1300 – English [[m|en|rebel]], from the derived adjective.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To renew a war; to [[m|en|revolt]], [[m|en|rebel]], of the conquered.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(poetic)'' To renew a fight.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # Of things, to resist; of an illness, to break out again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[rebellātiō]]
+ * [[rebellātrīx]]
+ * [[rebelliō]]
+ * [[rebellium]]
+ * [[rebellis]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[bellum]]
+ * [[bellō]]
+ * [[en|rebel]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}