repente Latin · revision 17973

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=la repēns}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛˈpɛn.tɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈpɛn.te]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''repente''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the adverb of [[m|la|repēns|t=sudden]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The origin of that adjective is unclear: Walde and Hofmann derived it from ⟨*wrep-⟩, from [[ine-pro|*werp-|t=to twist]], “with a sudden move”; de Vaan prefers a link with [[m|la|rapiō|t=to seize]] and reconstructs [[itc-pro|*rep-nt-]], an aorist participle ⟨*h₁rep-nt-⟩ “seizing”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Ennius.^(Köbler 2010) Plautus has ''is repente abiit ā mē hinc ante lūcem'', “he suddenly went away from me before dawn”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Repente'' is “without warning, suddenly” (Terence: he had suddenly taken up music), and “in an instant, all at once”, as in Plautus' ''repente exortus sum, repentīnō occidī'', “I rose all at once and all at once I set”, and Cato's ''repente largiter habēre, repente nihil'', “to have plenty all at once, all at once nothing”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “suddenly”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''is repente abiit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato: ''repente largiter habēre, repente nihil''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|suddenly]], without warning.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # In an instant, all at once.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[repēns]]

+ * [[repentīnus]]

+ * [[subitō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}