praecello

From prae- +‎ *cellō (“to rise”), one lost verb whose participle is celsus, from Proto-Italic *kelnō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise”) (whence collis, columen etc.).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prae̯ˈkɛl.loː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [preˈt͡ʃɛl.lo]

praecellō (present infinitive praecellere, perfect active praeculī or praecelluī, supine praecelsum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to surpass, outdo
   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebaid 6.858-859:

     non secus ingentes artus praecelsus Agylleus sponte premit parvumque gemens duplicatur in hostem

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1876 [c. 1073-1076], Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum‎^[1], Hahniani, page 116:

     sapientiae ac virtutum merito fere omnes praecelluit

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to excel (with per or ablative)

• Note: This verb seems to have sometimes been treated as a second-conjugation verb by ancient writers.

• antecellō
• excellō

• English: precel
• French: préceller

• “praecello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “praecello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “praecello”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.