repulsus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of repellō.

Participle

repulsus (feminine repulsa, neuter repulsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. having been rejected, repulsed, repelled
  2. having been defeated in an election

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative repulsus repulsa repulsum repulsī repulsae repulsa
Genitive repulsī repulsae repulsī repulsōrum repulsārum repulsōrum
Dative repulsō repulsō repulsīs
Accusative repulsum repulsam repulsum repulsōs repulsās repulsa
Ablative repulsō repulsā repulsō repulsīs
Vocative repulse repulsa repulsum repulsī repulsae repulsa

Descendants
  • → Catalan: repulsa
  • → English: repulse
  • Italian: repulso

References
  • “repulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “repulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • repulsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to fail in one's candidature for the consulship: repulsam ferre consulatus (a populo) (Tusc. 5. 19. 54)
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