tollimus

Tollimus is primarily known as a Latin verb form: the first person plural present active indicative of tollo, tollere, meaning "we lift," "we raise," or "we remove." In classical Latin usage, tollimus conveys collective action by the speaker and others and appears in a range of literary, legal, and religious contexts where removal, exaltation, or taking away is described.

As a grammatical form, tollimus fits into the irregular conjugation pattern of tollo and is related to other forms such as tollitis (you plural lift) and tollunt (they lift). Its meanings can vary with context and idiom, from literal physical lifting to more abstract senses like abolishing, extolling, or freeing.

Outside of its strict grammatical role, tollimus has occasional modern appearances as a surname, a coined name in fiction, or a commercial or product name; such uses typically draw on the word’s Latinate character rather than a direct connection to the classical verb. In English-language treatments the pronunciation is often approximated as "tol-LIM-us." References to tollimus in scholarship focus largely on its occurrences in Latin texts and on its syntactic and semantic functions within those texts.