repello
Italian
Verb
repello
Latin
Etymology
From re- + pellō (“push, drive”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /reˈpel.loː/, [rɛˈpɛlːʲoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈpel.lo/, [reˈpɛlːo]
Verb
repellō (present infinitive repellere, perfect active reppulī, supine repulsum); third conjugation
- I drive, push or thrust back or away; reject, repulse, repel.
- (figuratively) I drive away, reject, remove, discard; keep off, hold back, ward off, repulse.
- (figuratively) I reject, refuse, refute, confute, repel.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: repel·lir
- English: repel, repeal (via Old French)
- Galician: repeler
- Italian: repellere
- Portuguese: repelir
- Spanish: repeler
References
- “repello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “repello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- repello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to repel an injury: iniurias defendere, repellere, propulsare
- to repulse an attack: repellere, propulsare hostem
- to repel an injury: iniurias defendere, repellere, propulsare
Spanish
Noun
repello m (plural repellos)
- plastering (of a building)
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