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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin repulsa.
Pronunciation
Noun
repulsa f (plural repulses)
- rebuke, reprimand
- Synonyms: renyada, pentinada
Derived terms
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Further reading
Italian
Participle
repulsa f sg
- feminine singular of repulso
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
repulsa
- inflection of repulsus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
repulsā
- ablative feminine singular of repulsus
References
- “repulsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “repulsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- repulsa 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)
- repulsa 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)
Spanish
Verb
repulsa
- inflection of repulsar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative