repudio Latin · revision 30994

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la pudeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈpʊ.di.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈpuː.di.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''repudiō''' (present infinitive repudiāre, perfect active repudiāvī, supine repudiātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|repudium|t=rejection, divorce]] with the verb ending [[m|la|-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists both among the derivatives of [[m|la|pudeō|t=to be ashamed]], from [[itc-pro|*pud-ē-|t=to be ashamed or shy]]; the further origin of that root is unclear, and he finds a link with [[ine-pro|*speud-|t=to press, hurry]] attractive in meaning but not proven.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan gives Plautus as its first author.^(de Vaan 2008) In the ''Truculentus'' it is the formal rejection of a suitor: ''sī repudiātur mīles'', “if the soldier is turned down”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first the formal rejection of a prospective husband or wife, and then divorce: Velleius says Cinna could not be frightened into divorcing his daughter.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More widely it is to refuse a person in some role (Plautus: ''repudiō tē frāterculum'', “I disown you as a brother”), to refuse gifts or proposals, to reject a policy, a request or a duty, to refuse to believe something, and to give up something one has used, as the Claudii gave up the first name Lucius.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “reject, repudiate”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''repudiate'' (1540s), first “cast off by divorce”, comes from its past participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of rejecting a suitor and disowning a brother.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of rejecting a way of life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of rejecting a duty and refusing to believe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English [[m|en|repudiate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To reject formally (a suitor or betrothed); to [[m|en|divorce]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To refuse to accept (a person in some role), [[m|en|spurn]], disown.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|decline]] (gifts, proposals).^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|repudiate]] (a policy, request or duty); to refuse to believe.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To give up, abandon (a name, law or treaty).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repudiātiō]]

+ * [[repudiator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[repudium]]

+ * [[pudeō]]

+ * [[pudor]]

+ * [[en|repudiate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}