promello

Latin

Etymology

Disputed. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mel-. Prefixed with prō-. The linguists José Marcos Macedo and Daniel Kölligan instead propose a connection with the root *melh₃-, a root also seen in Ancient Greek βλώσκω (blṓskō). It has also been connected with Latin remeligo, which may derive from *remellō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proːˈmɛl.loː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [proˈmɛl.lo]

Verb

prōmellō (present infinitive prōmellere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

1. (hapax legomenon) synonym of prōmoveō
   • c. 2nd century, Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione 335:

     Promellere item promovere

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	prōmellō		prōmellis		prōmellit		prōmellimus		prōmellitis		prōmellunt
	imperfect	prōmellēbam		prōmellēbās		prōmellēbat		prōmellēbāmus		prōmellēbātis		prōmellēbant
	future	prōmellam		prōmellēs		prōmellet		prōmellēmus		prōmellētis		prōmellent
passive	present	prōmellor		prōmelleris, prōmellere		prōmellitur		prōmellimur		prōmelliminī		prōmelluntur
	imperfect	prōmellēbar		prōmellēbāris, prōmellēbāre		prōmellēbātur		prōmellēbāmur		prōmellēbāminī		prōmellēbantur
	future	prōmellar		prōmellēris, prōmellēre		prōmellētur		prōmellēmur		prōmellēminī		prōmellentur
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	prōmellam		prōmellās		prōmellat		prōmellāmus		prōmellātis		prōmellant
	imperfect	prōmellerem		prōmellerēs		prōmelleret		prōmellerēmus		prōmellerētis		prōmellerent
passive	present	prōmellar		prōmellāris, prōmellāre		prōmellātur		prōmellāmur		prōmellāminī		prōmellantur
	imperfect	prōmellerer		prōmellerēris, prōmellerēre		prōmellerētur		prōmellerēmur		prōmellerēminī		prōmellerentur
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		prōmelle		—		—		prōmellite		—
	future	—		prōmellitō		prōmellitō		—		prōmellitōte		prōmelluntō
passive	present	—		prōmellere		—		—		prōmelliminī		—
	future	—		prōmellitor		prōmellitor		—		—		prōmelluntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		prōmellere			prōmellī			prōmellēns			—
future		—			—			—			prōmellendus, prōmellundus
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		prōmellendī		prōmellendō		prōmellendum		prōmellendō		—		—

References

• “promellere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “promellere”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “promello”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 370
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 720
• José Marcos Macedo; Daniel Kölligan (2020), “Cretan μωλεῖν 'Contend, Bring an Action to Court?”, in Mnemosyne‎, volume 73, number 2, →ISSN, pages 179–197
• Oswald Szemerenyi (1951), “Greek μέλλω. A Historical and Comparative Study”, in The American Journal of Philology‎, volume 72, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 346–368