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repente suddenly
repente is a Latin Adverb that primarily means suddenly.
Definitions for repente
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
suddenly
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adverb
- 1
Without warning, suddenly.
- 2
In an instant, all at once.
Sentences with repente
Latin to English
Saepe rogare soles qualis sim, Prisce, futurus, si fiam locuples simque repente potens.Compare You are often wont to ask me what sort of person I should be, Priscus, if I become rich and were suddenly powerful.
Quam cito ille omnis ex laetitia ad luctus recido, ut, qui paullo ante consul designatus sum, retineo repente nullus vestigium pristinus dignitas!Compare How quickly did all those things fall from gladness to sorrow, so that he, who a short time before had been consul elect, retained on a sudden no vestige of his former dignity!
Indicium is res factus, porta repente jussu proconsul clausus, comprehendo omnis, qui in noxa sum, et, quaestio acriter habitus, damno necoque.Compare Information of that fact having been given, and the gates having been suddenly closed by the order of the proconsul, all the guilty parties were seized, and, after the torture have been sharply applied, were condemed and put to death.
Posteaquam ego in Sicilia venio, repente iste amico fio.Compare After that I came to Sicily, he suddenly became his friend.
Quum ocius signum convello iubeo, et ipse in equus insilio, equus repente corruo, consulque lapsus super caput effundo.Compare When he was ordering the standards to be moved with more haste, and had himself leapt on his horse, the animal suddenly fell, and threw the consul over his head.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 206.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1617.
- Word frequencies
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 119-219.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "repente (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/repente.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 206.repente on page 206
