repulsus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of repellō.

Participle

repulsus (feminine repulsa, neuter repulsum); first/second-declension participle

1. having been rejected, repulsed, repelled
2. having been defeated in an election

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	repulsus	repulsa	repulsum		repulsī	repulsae	repulsa
genitive	repulsī	repulsae	repulsī		repulsōrum	repulsārum	repulsōrum
dative	repulsō	repulsae	repulsō		repulsīs
accusative	repulsum	repulsam	repulsum		repulsōs	repulsās	repulsa
ablative	repulsō	repulsā	repulsō		repulsīs
vocative	repulse	repulsa	repulsum		repulsī	repulsae	repulsa

Descendants

• → Catalan: repulsa
• → English: repulse
• Italian: repulso

References

• “repulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “repulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• repulsus 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)