repudium

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Latin

Etymology

From re- +‎ pudeō (to feel ashamed, to put to shame) +‎ -ium.

Noun

repudium n (genitive repudiī or repudī); second declension

  1. repudiation
  2. rejection
  3. divorce

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative repudium repudia
genitive repudiī
repudī1
repudiōrum
dative repudiō repudiīs
accusative repudium repudia
ablative repudiō repudiīs
vocative repudium repudia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: repudi
  • Galician: repudio
  • Italian: ripudio
  • Portuguese: repúdio
  • Spanish: repudio

References

  • repudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • repudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • repudium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • repudium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to separate, be divorced (used of man or woman): repudium dicere or scribere alicui
    • to separate (of the woman): repudium remittere viro (Dig. 24. 3)
  • repudium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • repudium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin