excello
Latin
Etymology
From ex- + *cellō (“to rise”), one lost verb whose participle is celsus, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise”) (whence collis, columen etc.).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈskel.loː/, [ɛkˈs̠kɛlːʲoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈʃel.lo/, [ekˈʃɛlːo]
Verb
excellō (present infinitive excellere, perfect active excelluī, supine excelsum); third conjugation
- I elevate, raise up.
- Synonyms: levō, ēlevō, allevō, ērigō, tollō, scandō, ēvehō, efferō, sublīmō, surgō, ēdō
- Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō
- I rise, elevate myself.
- I exult, am elated.
- I excel, surpass.
- Synonyms: antecēdō, anteeō, praeēmineō, trānseō
- I am eminent
- Synonyms: ēmineō, exstō, liqueō, antecēdō, praeēmineō, ēniteō
Conjugation
| Conjugation of excellō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | excelle | — | — | excellite | — |
| future | — | excellitō | excellitō | — | excellitōte | excelluntō | |
| passive | present | — | excellere | — | — | excelliminī | — |
| future | — | excellitor | excellitor | — | — | excelluntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | excellere | excelluisse | excelsūrum esse | excellī | excelsum esse | excelsum īrī | |
| participles | excellēns | — | excelsūrus | — | excelsus | excellendus, excellundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| excellendī | excellendō | excellendum | excellendō | excelsum | excelsū | ||
Derived terms
- excellēns
- excellenter
- excellentia
- excelsē
- excelsitās
- excelsum
- excelsus
Related terms
- antecellō
- praecellō
Descendants
- Catalan: excel·lir
- English: excel
- French: exceller
- Italian: eccellere
- Occitan: excellir
- 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the aristocracy (as a social class): nobiles; nobilitas; qui nobilitate generis excellunt
- the aristocracy (as a social class): nobiles; nobilitas; qui nobilitate generis excellunt
Portuguese
Verb
excello
- first-person singular present indicative of exceller