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Ido
Noun
repugno (plural repugni)
- disgust, revulsion
Derived terms
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈpuɲ.ɲo/
- Rhymes: -uɲɲo
- Hyphenation: re‧pù‧gno
Verb
repugno
- first-person singular present indicative of repugnare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From re- (“against”) + pugno (“fight”).
Pronunciation
Verb
repugnō (present infinitive repugnāre, perfect active repugnāvī, supine repugnātum); first conjugation
- to fight against
- Synonyms: pugnō, lūctor, contendō, dēcernō, committō, concurrō, certō, bellō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, serō, dēcertō
- to oppose
- Synonyms: oppōnō, adversor, refrāgor, obversor, restō, recūsō, resistō, officiō, dīvertō, resistō, subsistō, vetō, obstō
- to resist or defend oneself
- I struggle (often with an "against myself" implied)
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “repugno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “repugno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- repugno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- I have nothing to say against it: non repugno
- to be mutually contradictory: inter se pugnare or repugnare
- to contradict oneself, be inconsistent: secum pugnare (without sibi); sibi repugnare (of things)
- to be contrary to all reason: rationi repugnare
Portuguese
Verb
repugno
- first-person singular present indicative of repugnar
Spanish
Verb
repugno
- first-person singular present indicative of repugnar