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Latin
Etymology
Present participle of repugnō.
Participle
repugnāns (genitive repugnantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- opposing
- resisting, defending
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
References
- “repugnans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “repugnans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- repugnans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to do a thing which is not one's vocation, which goes against the grain: adversante et repugnante natura or invitā Minervā (ut aiunt) aliquid facere (Off. 1. 31. 110)