attollo

Latin

Alternative forms

• adtollō
• attolō

Etymology

From ad- +‎ tollō.

Verb

attollō (present infinitive attollere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. to lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rear
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.688-689:

     Illa, gravēs oculōs cōnāta attollere rūrsus
     dēficit; īnfīxum strīdit sub pectore vulnus.

     [Dido, who] had tried to lift her heavy eyes again, swoons — the deep-driven wound gasping beneath her breast.
     (For lifting of the eyes, cf. Aeneid 5.847: “attollens … lumina”.)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of attollō (third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	attollō		attollis		attollit		attollimus		attollitis		attollunt
	imperfect	attollēbam		attollēbās		attollēbat		attollēbāmus		attollēbātis		attollēbant
	future	attollam		attollēs		attollet		attollēmus		attollētis		attollent
passive	present	attollor		attollere, attolleris		attollitur		attollimur		attolliminī		attolluntur
	imperfect	attollēbar		attollēbāre, attollēbāris		attollēbātur		attollēbāmur		attollēbāminī		attollēbantur
	future	attollar		attollēre, attollēris		attollētur		attollēmur		attollēminī		attollentur
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	attollam		attollās		attollat		attollāmus		attollātis		attollant
	imperfect	attollerem		attollerēs		attolleret		attollerēmus		attollerētis		attollerent
passive	present	attollar		attollāre, attollāris		attollātur		attollāmur		attollāminī		attollantur
	imperfect	attollerer		attollerēre, attollerēris		attollerētur		attollerēmur		attollerēminī		attollerentur
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		attolle		—		—		attollite		—
	future	—		attollitō		attollitō		—		attollitōte		attolluntō
passive	present	—		attollere		—		—		attolliminī		—
	future	—		attollitor		attollitor		—		—		attolluntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		attollere			attollī			attollēns			—
future		—			—			—			attollendus, attollundus
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		attollendī		attollendō		attollendum		attollendō		—		—

References

• “attollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “attollo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• attollo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: oculos tollere, attollere ad caelum