English → Latin
“repugnant” in Latin
odiōsushateful, odious, vexatious, offensive, unpleasant, disagreeable, annoying, troublesomealiēnusOf that which belongs to another person, place, or object—of another, alien, foreign; unfriendly, inimical, hostile, suspugnōto fight, combat, battle, engage; to contend, conflict, oppose, contradict; to endeavour, struggle, striverepugnōto fight against; to oppose; to resist or defend oneselfāvertōto turn away, turn off, avert; to avoid, divert, deviate; to remove; to steal, embezzle, appropriate to oneselfcontrāriusopposite, opposed, contrary, conflicting, witherward
The English word repugnant itself goes back to Latin pugnus, through repugnans.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
repugnant
odiosus (hateful): alienus (foreign to, etc): pugnans: repugnans (contradictory, inconsistent; of things): aversus: contrarius. [Vid :, also, CONTRARY.] Anything is repugnant to me, me alicujus rei pertaesum est: taedet me alicujus rei: res taedium mihi creat: aliquis or alicujus animus abhorret a re.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for repugnant?
- The usual Latin words for “repugnant” are odiōsus, aliēnus, pugnō; also repugnō, āvertō, contrārius. 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.