Latin

Alternative forms

• conpellō

Verb

compellō ‎(present infinitive compellere, perfect active compulī, supine compulsum); third conjugation

1. I compel
2. I urge
3. I drive together

Inflection

Etymology 2

From con- ‎(“together”) +‎ pellō ‎(“drive”) +‎ -ō.

Verb

compellō ‎(present infinitive compellāre, perfect active compellāvī, supine compellātum); first conjugation

1. I address, accost
2. I challenge
3. I rebuke
4. I accuse
5. I compel, incite, impel, drive, force

Inflection

References

• compello in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• compello in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “compello”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
    
• compel in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911