repudio

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.puˈði.u]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.puˈði.o]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.puˈði.o]

repudio

1. first-person singular present indicative of repudiar

From repudium (“repudiation; rejection”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈpʊ.di.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈpuː.di.o]

repudiō (present infinitive repudiāre, perfect active repudiāvī, supine repudiātum); first conjugation

1. to cast off, reject, repudiate, disdain, rebuff
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 16.55:

     Cūriō ad focum sedentī magnum aurī pondus Samnītēs cum attulissent, repudiātī sunt; nōn enim aurum habēre praeclārum sibi vidērī dīxit, sed eīs quī habērent aurum imperāre.

     When Curius was sitting by his hearth, the Samnites had brought a vast quantity of gold [as a bribe], [and] [their offers] were rejected. For he declared that, to his [mind], it did not seem splendid to possess gold, but rather to hold sway over those who did.
     (Third person plural, perfect passive indicative. See: Manius Curius Dentatus.)

• repudiātiō

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “rĕpŭdiāre”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 542
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “repudiare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 279

• “repudio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “repudio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “repudio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to refuse, reject a request: repudiare, aspernari preces alicuius
    
  • to accept the terms of the peace: pacis condiciones accipere, subire (opp. repudiare, respuere)
    

repudio

1. first-person singular present indicative of repudiar

• IPA^(key): /reˈpudjo/ [reˈpu.ð̞jo]
• Rhymes: -udjo
• Syllabification: re‧pu‧dio

From Latin repudium.

repudio m (plural repudios)

1. repudiation

repudio

1. first-person singular present indicative of repudiar

• “repudio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025