excello

Latin

Etymology

From ex- +‎ Proto-Italic *kelnō (“to rise”), a lost verb whose past participle resulted in celsus, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise”) (whence collis, columen etc.).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eksˈkel.loː/, [ɛks̠ˈkɛlːʲoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eksˈt͡ʃel.lo/, [eksˈt͡ʃɛlːo]

Verb

excellō (present infinitive excellere, perfect active excelluī, supine excelsum); third conjugation

to elevate, raise up
Synonyms: levō, ēlevō, allevō, ērigō, tollō, scandō, ēvehō, efferō, sublīmō, surgō, ēdō

Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō
to rise, elevate oneself
to exult, be elated
to excel, surpass
Synonyms: antecēdō, anteeō, praeēmineō, trānseō
to be eminent
Synonyms: ēmineō, exstō, liqueō, antecēdō, praeēmineō, ēniteō

Conjugation

Conjugation of excellō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	excellō	excellis		excellit	excellimus	excellitis		excellunt
	imperfect	excellēbam	excellēbās		excellēbat	excellēbāmus	excellēbātis		excellēbant
	future	excellam	excellēs		excellet	excellēmus	excellētis		excellent
	perfect	excelluī	excelluistī		excelluit	excelluimus	excelluistis		excelluērunt, excelluēre
	pluperfect	excellueram	excelluerās		excelluerat	excelluerāmus	excelluerātis		excelluerant
	future perfect	excelluerō	excellueris		excelluerit	excelluerimus	excellueritis		excelluerint
passive	present	excellor	excelleris, excellere		excellitur	excellimur	excelliminī		excelluntur
	imperfect	excellēbar	excellēbāris, excellēbāre		excellēbātur	excellēbāmur	excellēbāminī		excellēbantur
	future	excellar	excellēris, excellēre		excellētur	excellēmur	excellēminī		excellentur
	perfect	excelsus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	excelsus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	excelsus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	excellam	excellās		excellat	excellāmus	excellātis		excellant
	imperfect	excellerem	excellerēs		excelleret	excellerēmus	excellerētis		excellerent
	perfect	excelluerim	excelluerīs		excelluerit	excelluerīmus	excelluerītis		excelluerint
	pluperfect	excelluissem	excelluissēs		excelluisset	excelluissēmus	excelluissētis		excelluissent
passive	present	excellar	excellāris, excellāre		excellātur	excellāmur	excellāminī		excellantur
	imperfect	excellerer	excellerēris, excellerēre		excellerētur	excellerēmur	excellerēminī		excellerentur
	perfect	excelsus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	excelsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	excelle		—	—	excellite		—
active	future	—	excellitō		excellitō	—	excellitōte		excelluntō
passive	present	—	excellere		—	—	excelliminī		—
passive	future	—	excellitor		excellitor	—	—		excelluntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		excellere		excellī		excellēns		—
future		excelsūrum esse		excelsum īrī		excelsūrus		excellendus, excellundus
perfect		excelluisse		excelsum esse		—		excelsus
future perfect		—		excelsum fore		—		—
perfect potential		excelsūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		excellendī	excellendō		excellendum	excellendō	excelsum		excelsū

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: excel·lir
English: excel
French: exceller
Italian: eccellere
Occitan: excellir
Romanian: excela
Portuguese: exceler

References

“excello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“excello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
excello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the aristocracy (as a social class): nobiles; nobilitas; qui nobilitate generis excellunt

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105

Portuguese

Verb

excello

first-person singular present indicative of exceller

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105

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