Latin

Verb

fellō ‎(present infinitive fellāre, perfect active fellāvī, supine fellātum); first conjugation

1. I suck.
2. (vulgar) In particular, I fellate.

Inflection

Quotations

• 1st century AD, Martial, Epigrams 2.50

  Quod fellas et aquam potas, nil, Lesbia, peccas:

  qua tibi parte opus est, Lesbia, sumis aquam.

  (Because you suck [cock] and drink water, Lesbia, you err in nothing:

  in just the part you ought to be, Lesbia, you're making use of the water)

Descendants

• English: fellate

See also

• irrumō

Etymology 2

From Frankish *felo ‎(“wicked person”), from Proto-Germanic *fillô, *filjô ‎(“flayer, whipper, scoundrel”), from Proto-Germanic *faluz ‎(“cruel, evil”) (compare English fell ‎(“fierce”), Middle High German vālant ‎(“imp”)), related to *fellaną (compare Dutch villen, German fillen ‎(“to whip, beat”), both from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- ‎(“to stir, move, swing”) (compare Old Irish adellaim 'I seek', diellaim 'I yield', Umbrian pelsatu 'to overcome, conquer', Latin pellere ‎(“to drive, beat”), Latvian lijuôs, plītiês ‎(“to force, impose”), Ancient Greek πέλας ‎(pélas, “near”), πίλναμαι ‎(pílnamai, “I approach”), Old Armenian հալածեմ ‎(halacem, “I pursue”).

Noun

fellō m ‎(genitive fellōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) criminal, barbarian

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: felon, felo de se
• French: félon
• Italian: fellone

References

• fello in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• FELLO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fello”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.