repudium

Latin

Etymology

From re- +‎ pudeō (“to feel ashamed, to put to shame”) +‎ -ium.

cognates

From Proto-Indo-European: Latin paveō, Latin paviō, Latin pudeō, and (possibly) Latin tripudium and Latin putō.

Noun

repudium n (genitive repudiī or repudī); second declension

1. repudiation
2. rejection
3. divorce

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	repudium	repudia
genitive	repudiī repudī1	repudiōrum
dative	repudiō	repudiīs
accusative	repudium	repudia
ablative	repudiō	repudiīs
vocative	repudium	repudia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• repudiō

Descendants

• Catalan: repudi
• Galician: repudio
• Italian: ripudio
• Portuguese: repúdio
• Spanish: repudio

References

• “repudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “repudium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• repudium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• repudium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to separate, be divorced (used of man or woman): repudium dicere or scribere alicui
    
  • to separate (of the woman): repudium remittere viro (Dig. 24. 3)
    
• “repudium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “repudium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin