repens
English
Verb
repens
- third-person singular simple present indicative of repen
French
Verb
repens
- first/second-person singular present indicative of repentir
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
Present active participle of rēpō (“creep, crawl”).
Participle
rēpēns (genitive rēpentis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension
Third-declension participle.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | rēpēns | rēpentēs | rēpentia | ||
| genitive | rēpentis | rēpentium | |||
| dative | rēpentī | rēpentibus | |||
| accusative | rēpentem | rēpēns | rēpentēs rēpentīs |
rēpentia | |
| ablative | rēpente rēpentī1 |
rēpentibus | |||
| vocative | rēpēns | rēpentēs | rēpentia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
Synonyms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Of uncertain origin. De Vaan prefers to derive the word from Proto-Italic *rep-nt-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁repnt- (“seizing”), the aorist participle of *h₁rep- (“to snatch”), and thus cognate with rapiō (“to snatch”); see there for more.[1]
Adjective
repēns (genitive repentis, adverb repente); third-declension one-termination adjective
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | repēns | repentēs | repentia | ||
| genitive | repentis | repentium | |||
| dative | repentī | repentibus | |||
| accusative | repentem | repēns | repentēs | repentia | |
| ablative | repentī | repentibus | |||
| vocative | repēns | repentēs | repentia | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
Adverb
repēns (not comparable)
- alternative form of repente
References
- “repens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “repens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- repens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “repēns”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 520
Swedish
Noun
repens
- definite genitive plural of rep