repello
Italian
Verb
repello
- first-person singular present indicative of repellere
Latin
Etymology
From re- + pellō (“push, drive”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rɛˈpɛl.loː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [reˈpɛl.lo]
Verb
repellō (present infinitive repellere, perfect active reppulī, supine repulsum); third conjugation
- to drive, push or thrust back or away; reject, repulse, repel
- (figuratively) to drive away, reject, remove, discard; keep off, hold back, ward off, repulse
- (figuratively) to reject, refuse, refute, confute, repel
Conjugation
Conjugation of repellō (third conjugation)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: repel·lir
- English: repel, repeal (via Old French)
- Galician: repeler
- Italian: repellere
- Portuguese: repelir
- Spanish: repeler, repulsar
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈpeʝo/ [reˈpe.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /reˈpeʎo/ [reˈpe.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /reˈpeʃo/ [reˈpe.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /reˈpeʒo/ [reˈpe.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -eʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -eʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -eʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: re‧pe‧llo
Noun
repello m (plural repellos)
- plastering (of a building)
Further reading
- “repello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024