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Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
repto
- first-person singular present indicative of reptar (“to challenge; to reprimand”)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
repto
- first-person singular present indicative of reptar (“to crawl”)
Latin
Etymology
Frequentative of rēpō.
Pronunciation
Verb
rēptō (present infinitive rēptāre, perfect active rēptāvī, supine rēptātum); first conjugation, no passive
- to crawl or creep (over or through)
Conjugation
- The past passive participle rēptātus (“on which one has crawled; crowded; where one has swum”) exists.
Descendants
References
- “repto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “repto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- repto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to demand an account, an audit of a matter: rationem ab aliquo reptere de aliqua re (Cluent. 37. 104)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Deverbal from reptar.
Noun
repto m (plural reptos)
- challenge
- Synonym: desafio
Etymology 2
Verb
repto
- first-person singular present indicative of reptar
Spanish
Verb
repto
- first-person singular present indicative of reptar