excello

Latin

Etymology

From ex- +‎ *cellō (“to rise”), a lost verb whose participle is celsus, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise”) (whence collis, columen etc.).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eksˈkel.loː/, [ɛks̠ˈkɛlːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eksˈt͡ʃel.lo/, [eksˈt͡ʃɛlːo]

Verb

excellō (present infinitive excellere, perfect active excelluī, supine excelsum); third conjugation

1. to elevate, raise up

   Synonyms: levō, ēlevō, allevō, ērigō, tollō, scandō, ēvehō, efferō, sublīmō, surgō, ēdō

   Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō

2. to rise, elevate oneself
3. to exult, be elated
4. to excel, surpass

   Synonyms: antecēdō, anteeō, praeēmineō, trānseō

5. to be 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
• Romanian: excela
• 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
    

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 105

Portuguese

Verb

excello

1. first-person singular present indicative of exceller