adverb
repente
repente (not comparable)
Classical[rɛˈpɛn.tɛ]Ecclesiastical[reˈpɛn.te]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablesuddenly.
[…] ut mihi tum repente vīsum est
[…] as it then immediately seemed to mec. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 10.3
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
subitō, ex īnspērātōrepentē — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 19
rĕpentē, adv., v. 2. repens
I. fin. b.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
repente adv.
2 repens, suddenly, unexpectedly, on a sudden : quamvis repente: a tergo signa canere, S.: cunctisque repente Improvisus ait, V.: conlecta auctoritas, Cs.: modo egens, repente dives: abiectus conscientiā repente conticuit: cum circumfusa repente Scindit se nubes, V.: facta repente pax cariores Sabinas fecit, L.
Origins
Adverbial form of repēns (“sudden”).