repens

repens

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of repen

repens

1. first/second-person singular present indicative of repentir

• pensers

Present active participle of rēpō (“creep, crawl”).

rēpēns (genitive rēpentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. creeping, crawling

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• rēptāns

• Catalan: repent
• → English: repent

Of uncertain origin. De Vaan prefers to derive the word from Proto-Italic *rep-nt-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁repnt- (“seizing”), the aorist participle of *h₁rep- (“to snatch”), and thus cognate with rapiō (“to snatch”); see there for more.^[1]

repēns (genitive repentis, adverb repente); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. sudden, unexpected
2. recent, fresh

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• repente
• repentinus

• Italian: repente
• Portuguese: repente
• Spanish: repente

repēns (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of repente

• “repens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “repens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• repens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

repens

1. definite genitive plural of rep