repente

repente

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of repentir

• pénètre, pénétré

• IPA^(key): /reˈpɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: re‧pèn‧te

repente m or f (plural repenti)

1. sudden, rapid

• repentemente

repente

1. suddenly, rapidly

• perente, terpene

• repēns

Adverbial form of repēns (“sudden”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈpɛn.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈpɛn̪.t̪e]

repente (not comparable)

1. suddenly.

   Synonyms: mox, extemplo, propere, statim, raptim, confestim, breviter, brevi

• dērepente
• surrepente

repente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of repens

• Gascon: arrebén (“abrupt slope”), arrebenté
• → Italian: repente
• → Portuguese: repente
• → Spanish: repente

• “repente”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “repente”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• repente in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a sudden shower: imbres repente effusi
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “repens”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 265

From Latin rēpentem (“sudden, unexpected”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ẽtɨ
• Hyphenation: re‧pen‧te

repente m (plural repentes)

1. attack, upsurge
2. sudden movement
3. (Brazil) a fast-paced, rhymed song sung impromptu, common in the Northeast region in Brazil

• de repente
• repentista

• repentino

From Latin rēpentem (“sudden, unexpected”).

• IPA^(key): /reˈpente/ [reˈpẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: re‧pen‧te

repente m (plural repentes)

1. attack, upsurge
2. fit, sudden movement

• “repente”, 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