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The corpus record — Latin

dē-cello

dē-cello · v. a

to turn aside, deviate

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What it meant

dē-cello — Lewis & Short

dē-cello, ĕre, v. a., = declino,

I to turn aside, deviate, Lucr. 2, 219 Lachm. ex conj. (better depellere, with the MSS. v. Munro ad loc.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.