COMPELLENS, compellens
Sounds Like: kom-PEL-lens
Translations: compelling, forcing, driving, urging, a compelling one
From the root: COMPELLO
Part of Speech: Participle, Adjective
Explanation: COMPELLENS is the present active participle of the Latin verb COMPELLO, meaning 'to drive together, to force, to compel, or to urge'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective, describing something or someone that is in the act of compelling or forcing. It can be used to modify a noun, indicating the ongoing action of compelling.
Inflection: Present Active Participle, Nominative or Accusative, Singular, Masculine or Feminine or Neuter
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, COMPELLO.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- COMPELLO — to drive together, to collect, to compel, to force, to urge, to address, to accost, to speak to
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