verbthird conjugation, no perfect or supine stems
attollō
attollō (present infinitive attollere)
Meaning
- to lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rear
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”.)
29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.688-689
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
in altum levōattollō -ere — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 9, 20
Conjugation conjugation 3 perfect
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | attollō | attollēbam | attollam | — | — | — |
| 2nd sg. | attollis | attollēbās | attollēs | — | — | — |
| 3rd sg. | attollit | attollēbat | attollet | — | — | — |
| 1st pl. | attollimus | attollēbāmus | attollēmus | — | — | — |
| 2nd pl. | attollitis | attollēbātis | attollētis | — | — | — |
| 3rd pl. | attollunt | attollēbant | attollent | — | — | — |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | attollam | attollerem | — | — |
| 2nd sg. | attollās | attollerēs | — | — |
| 3rd sg. | attollat | attolleret | — | — |
| 1st pl. | attollāmus | attollerēmus | — | — |
| 2nd pl. | attollātis | attollerētis | — | — |
| 3rd pl. | attollant | attollerent | — | — |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | attollor | attollēbar | attollar |
| 2nd sg. | attolleris attollere | attollēbāris attollēbāre | attollēris attollēre |
| 3rd sg. | attollitur | attollēbātur | attollētur |
| 1st pl. | attollimur | attollēbāmur | attollēmur |
| 2nd pl. | attolliminī | attollēbāminī | attollēminī |
| 3rd pl. | attolluntur | attollēbantur | attollentur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | attollar | attollerer |
| 2nd sg. | attollāris attollāre | attollerēris attollerēre |
| 3rd sg. | attollātur | attollerētur |
| 1st pl. | attollāmur | attollerēmur |
| 2nd pl. | attollāminī | attollerēminī |
| 3rd pl. | attollantur | attollerentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | attolle | attollere |
| pres. 2nd pl. | attollite | attolliminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | attollitō | attollitor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | attollitō | attollitor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | attollitōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | attolluntō | attolluntor |
infinitives & participles
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | attollere | attollī |
| present participle | attollēns | — |
| future participle | — | attollendus attollundus, attollenda, attollendā, attollendae, attollendam, attollendārum, attollendās, attollende, attollendīs, attollendōrum, attollendōs |
gerundattollendī, attollendō, attollendum
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- oculos tollere, attollere ad caelum
- to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky.
at-tollo (attolo, arch.), no
I. perf. or sup., 3, v. a., to lift or raise up, raise, elevate, lift on high (in the poets and postAug. prose writers very frequent, but not in Cic.; syn.: tollo, erigo).
I. Lit.:
super limen pedes attollere, Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 1: signa, id. ib. 2, 6, 5: pallium attollere, i. e. accingere (v. accingo), * Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 31: illum (regem) omnes apes ... saepe attollunt umeris, Verg. G. 4, 217: Nec semel irrisus triviis attollere curat Fracto crure planum, to raise up the juggler, to help him up, * Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 58 Schmid: parvumque attollite natum, lift up, Ov. M. 9, 387: caput, id. ib. 5, 503: oculos humo, id. ib. 2, 448: Et contra magnum potes hos (oculos) attollere solem, Prop. 1, 15, 37: Sed non attollere contra Sustinet haec oculos, Ov. M. 6, 605: Attollens Joseph oculos vidit etc., Vulg. Gen. 43, 29: timidum lumen ad lumina, Ov. M. 10, 293: vultus jacentes, id. ib. 4, 144: corpus ulnis, id. ib. 7, 847: manus ad caelum, Liv. 10, 36: cornua e mari, Plin. 9, 27, 43, § 82: attollite portas, principes, Vulg. Psa. 23, 7; 23, 9: mare ventis, Tac. Agr. 10; cf.: Euphratem attolli, swollen, id. A. 6, 37: se in femur, raises himself on his thigh, Verg. A. 10, 856: se in auras, Ov. M. 4, 722: se recto trunco, id. ib. 2, 822: attollentem se ab gravi casu, Liv. 8, 7, 6: a terrā se attollentem, Plin. 21, 11, 36, § 62.— With middle signif.: e mediis hunc (sc. Atlantem) harenis in caelum attolli prodidere, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 6: attollitur monte Pione, id. 5, 29, 31, § 115.—Of buildings, to raise, erect, build: immensam molem, Verg. A. 2, 185: arcem, id. ib. 3, 134: attollitur opus in altitudinem XXXX. cubitis, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 30: turres in centenos vicenos[que] attollebantur, Tac. H. 5, 11.—Poet.: cum die stativorum campum alacritate discursu pulvere attolleres, Plin. Pan. 14, 3; cf. Verg. A. 9, 714.—II. Trop., to raise, elevate, exalt, sustain; also, to enlarge, aggrandize, to render prominent or conspicuous, to extol (so esp. freq. in Tac.):
Punica se quantis attollet gloria rebus, Verg. A. 4, 49: ultro implacabilis ardet Attollitque animos, id. ib. 12, 4: ad consulatūs spem attollere animos, Liv. 22, 26: rectos ac vividos animos non ut alii contundis ac deprimis, sed foves et attollis, Plin. Pan. 44, 6: Frangit et attollit vires in milite causa, Prop. 5, 6, 51: attollique suum laetis ad sidera nomen vocibus, Luc. 7, 11: quanto Ciceronis studio Brutus Cassiusque attollerentur, were distinguished, Vell. 2, 65 Ruhnk. (cf. Cic. Phil. 11, 14: animadverti dici jam a quibusdam exornari etiam nimium a me Brutum, nimium Cassium ornari); so, insignibus triumphi, Tac. A. 3, 72; id. H. 2, 90; 3, 37; 4, 59; id. Agr. 39: res per similitudinem, Quint. 8, 6, 68: his (frons) contrahitur, attollitur (is drawn up or raised), demittitur, id. 11, 3, 78: belloque et armis rem publicam, Tac. H. 4, 52: cuncta in majus attollens, id. A. 15, 30: sua facta, suos casus, id. Agr. 25.— Form attolo, of doubtful meaning: Quis vetat qui ne attolat? Pac., Trag. Rel. p. 82 Rib.: Custodite istunc vos, ne vim qui attolat neve attigat, id. ib. p. 105 (= auferre or afferre, Non.).Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
attollō (adt-) —, —, ere
ad + tollo, to lift up, raise up, raise, elevate: natum, O.: pallium (i. e. accingere), T.: fracto crure planum, H.: amicum ab humo, V.: oculos humo, O.: oculos contra, i. e. look in the face, O.: mare ventis, Ta.: ad lumina lumen, O.: manūs ad caelum, L.: attolitur unda, V.: capita caelo (of trees), V.: in aegrum se femur, to rise upon, V.: se in auras, O.: fluvio se, out of the river, V.: ex strage se, L.: se ab casu, L.: in caelum attolli, to rise, Ta.: attollit se Lacinia, comes into view, V.—Of buildings, to erect, raise: arcemque attollere tectis, by means of (high) roofs, V.—To raise, lift up, elevate, exalt: animos. V.: vires in milite, Pr.: ad consulatūs spem animos, L.: alqm praemiis, Ta.: iras, to rise in anger (of a serpent), V.: privati hominis nomen supra principis, Ta.: alcuius progeniem super cunctos, Ta.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinattollō
Latin tollō Latin attollō From ad- + tollō.