tollō

Meaning

1. to raise, lift up, elevate
   Vergil. AeneidAt the same time he raised horrible cries to the stars.
2. to remove, take away, steal, rob
   Agnus Deī, quī tollis peccāta mundī, miserēre nōbīs.Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
   Noctū clam sustulit signa pulcherrima atque antīquissima.He took away secretly by night the very beautiful and very ancient statues.70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem i.17.45
3. to destroy, eliminate, annul
4. to kill
5. to cancel, delay, set aside, do away with, abrogate
   Caesar, quod neque conloquium interposita causa tolli volebat neque salutem suam Gallorum equitatui committere audebat, commodissimum esse statuit omnibus equis Gallis equitibus detractis eo legionarios milites legionis X., cui quam maxime confidebat, imponere, ut praesidium quam amicissimum, si quid opus facto esset, haberet.Caesar, as he didn't want either the interview to be for any reason set aside or confide his wellbeing in the hands of the Gallic cavalry, said he saw as most fit the Gallic horsemen be stripped off their steeds and in their place mount legionaries of the 10th legion, in which he had the utmost faith, that he might have as trusted a body-guard as one could have if the occasion ever urged its use.c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.42
6. to consume, spend, pass
7. to erect, build, construct
8. to spread, disseminate

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

Conjugation conjugation 3

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

manus tollere

to raise one's hands in astonishment.

errorem tollere

to banish an error, do away with a false impression.

ancoras tollere

to weigh anchor.

risum edere, tollere

to begin to laugh.

signa ferre, tollere

to begin the march, break up the camp.

e or de medio tollere

to remove a person.

cachinnum tollere, edere

to burst into a roar of laughter.

ancoram (ancoras) tollere

to weigh anchor, sail.

Origins

Inherited from Proto-Italic *tolnō, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥néh₂ti ~ *tl̥nh₂énti, from *telh₂- + *-né-. Cognate with Latin tolerō (“to bear, endure, support, sustain, suffer”), tulī (“to bore”), lātus (“borne”), tellūs (“the earth, globe”). The perfect and supine stems of tollō were prefixed with sub- (“under, below, beneath, underneath, behind”) to distinguish them from the original forms tetulī and lātum, which had become suppletively attached to the conjugation of ferō (“to bear, carry, support, lift, hold, take up; to report, tell”). Further cognate with Ancient Greek τλάντος (tlántos, “bearing; suffering”), τολμέω (tolméō, “to carry; to bear”), τελᾰμών (telămṓn, “broad strap for bearing something”), Ᾰ̓́τλᾱς (Ắtlās, “Atlas”, who bears the heavens), Lithuanian ti̇̀ltas (“bridge”), Sanskrit तुला (tulā́, “balance”), तुलयति (tulayati, “lifts up; weighs”), Gothic 𐌸𐌿𐌻𐌰𐌽 (þulān, “to suffer; to endure”), Old English þolian (“to endure”, whence English thole), Old Armenian թողում (tʻołum, “to allow”).

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