convellunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →convello, convellere, convelli, convulsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shatter, batter, convulse, shake violently; heave up, set in motion; overthrow;; pull/pluck/tug/tear up/at dislodge, uproot; wrench, strain, dislocate (limbs);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...vectibus infima saxa turris hostium, quibus fundamenta continebantur, convellunt. Musculus ex turri latericia a nostris telis tormentisque defenditur..." - T
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...comitia habeat.' Ingens adsensus alacritasque cuncta adprobantium fuit. Convellunt inde signa profectique Romam certant cum obviis gaudio. Armati..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...alios usus, postquam turbatum in castris accepere, vexilla convellunt direptisque proximis vicis ipsoque Nauporto, quod municipii instar erat..."