The corpus record — Latin

recello

recello · v. n

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

rĕ-cello — Lewis & Short

rĕ-cello, ĕre, v. n. and

I a.

I Neutr., to spring back, fly back, bend back: recellere reclinare, Fest. p. 274 Müll. (very rare; perh. only in the foll. examples): (terra) inclinatur retroque recellit, Lucr. 6, 573: cum (ferrea manus) gravi libramento plumbi recelleret ad solum, Liv. 24, 34, 10, v. Weissenb. ad h. l.—

II Act., to throw or bend back (Appul.): totum corporis pondus in postremos poplites recello, App. M. 6, p. 198, 27: nates, id. ib. 10, p. 249, 19.

In the wild

recellebam Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.22
recelleret Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.24.34.10
recello Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.24
recelleret Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 p34
recellit Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.573

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.