repulsa

See also: repulsá

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin repulsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [rəˈpul.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [reˈpul.sa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

repulsa f (plural repulses)

1. rebuke, reprimand

   Synonyms: renyada, pentinada

Derived terms

• repulsar

Related terms

• repel·lir
• repulsió

Further reading

• “repulsa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Italian

Participle

repulsa f sg

1. feminine singular of repulso

Anagrams

• prelusa, pulsare, pulserà, spulare, spulerà

Latin

Etymology

Clipping of repulsa petītiō, from repellō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈpʊɫ.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈpul.sa]

Noun

repulsa f (genitive repulsae); first declension

1. rejection, denial, refusal, repulse, rebuff
2. a spurning, exclusion, refutation

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	repulsa	repulsae
genitive	repulsae	repulsārum
dative	repulsae	repulsīs
accusative	repulsam	repulsās
ablative	repulsā	repulsīs
vocative	repulsa	repulsae

Participle

repulsa

1. inflection of repulsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

repulsā

1. ablative feminine singular of repulsus

References

• “repulsa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• repulsa in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “repulsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “repulsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "repulsa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to fail in one's candidature for the consulship: repulsam ferre consulatus (a populo) (Tusc. 5. 19. 54)
    

Spanish

Verb

repulsa

1. inflection of repulsar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative