repente

French

Verb

repente

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of repentir

Anagrams

• pénètre, pénétré

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈpɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: re‧pèn‧te

Adjective

repente (plural repenti)

1. sudden, rapid

Derived terms

• repentemente

Adverb

repente

1. suddenly, rapidly

Anagrams

• perente, terpene

Latin

Alternative forms

• repēns

Etymology

Adverbial form of repēns (“sudden”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈpen.te/, [rɛˈpɛn̪t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈpen.te/, [reˈpɛn̪t̪e]

Adverb

repente (not comparable)

1. suddenly.

   Synonyms: mox, extemplo, propere, statim, raptim, confestim, breviter, brevi

Derived terms

• dērepente
• surrepente

Adjective

repente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of repens

Descendants

• Gascon: arrebén (“abrupt slope”), arrebenté
• → Italian: repente
• → Portuguese: repente
• → Spanish: repente

References

• “repente”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “repente”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• repente in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a sudden shower: imbres repente effusi
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “repens”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 265

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin rēpentem (“sudden, unexpected”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpẽ.t͡ʃi/ [heˈpẽ.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpẽ.t͡ʃi/ [heˈpẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpẽ.t͡ʃi/ [χeˈpẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈpẽ.te/ [heˈpẽ.te]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈpẽ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: re‧pen‧te

Noun

repente m (plural repentes)

1. attack, upsurge
2. sudden movement
3. (Brazil) a fast-paced, rhymed song sung impromptu, common in the Northeast region in Brazil

Derived terms

• de repente
• repentista

Related terms

• repentino

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rēpentem (“sudden, unexpected”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈpente/ [reˈpẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: re‧pen‧te

Noun

repente m (plural repentes)

1. attack, upsurge
2. fit, sudden movement

Derived terms

• de repente

Related terms

• repentino

Further reading

• “repente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10