dispellato

Dispellato is the past participle of the Italian transitive verb dispellare, meaning to dispel or drive away. It functions as an adjective or as part of compound tenses, indicating that something has been removed, cleared, or banished, whether in a literal or figurative sense.

In everyday usage, dispellare is used to describe the removal of doubts, fears, rumors, or illusions, as well as physical phenomena that disappear. For example, one can speak of dispellare la paura (to dispel fear), dispellare i dubbi (to dispel doubts), or dispellare la nebbia (to clear the fog). Figuratively, it can describe lifting a spell or breaking a magical enchantment in fantasy or occult contexts, as in dispellare un incantesimo.

Grammatically, dispellato can appear in various forms depending on the tense and voice. In compound tenses with avere, the participle may agree with a preceding direct object (e.g., la nebbia dispellata) in gender and number. In passive constructions, one uses essere, as in la nebbia è stata dispellata.

Etymology traces dispellare to the prefix dis- (away, apart) and the root pellere (to drive or push), with lineage through Latin and Old French influences. The term shares a semantic field with dissipare and dissolvere, though dispellare emphasizes driving away what is unwanted rather than dissolving it.

See also: dissipare, dissolvere, dissipazione.