English → Latin
“repugnance” in Latin
odiumhatred, ill-will, aversion, dislike, disgust, detestation, odium, loathing, enmity or their manifestation; the conditionfugaflight, fleeing, escape; avoidance; exileāspernorto cast off, turn away, avert, repel; to cast off, spurn, despise, disdain, scorn; to refuse, reject, declinerespuōto spit or spew out; to reject or refuse
The English word repugnance itself goes back to Latin repugnantia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
repugnance
discordia rerum: repugnantia rerum (contrariety of nature and qualities. Pliny also uses antipathia, ἀντιπάθεια): odium: fuga: aversans et repugnans natura (natural feeling of dislike; these three especially of persons): naturale bellum (Cic., of the consequence of a natural antipathy between animals: est alicui cum aliquo). To feel repugnance against anything, abhorrere a re: aversari aliquid: aliquid spernere, aspernari, respuere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) aspernari ac respuere aliquid: fastidire aliquem or aliquid (feel disgust or loathing): to entertain a repugnance against anybody, animorum contentione a aliquo discrepare: to feel a great repugnance against anything, magnum odium alicujus rei me capit: there is a great repugnance between two things, res quaedam pervicaci odio dissident: without any repugnance, promto animo: libenter: with repugnance, repugnanter.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for repugnance?
- The usual Latin words for “repugnance” are odium, fuga, āspernor; also respuō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.