English
repeal
Repeal comes from Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler ‘to call back, call in, call after, revoke’, and ultimately from Latin pellō ‘push or strike’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpellō‘push or strike’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepellō‘drive or thrust back’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400rapeler‘to call back, call in, call after, revoke’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400repeler
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1592repeal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpellō‘push or strike’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepellō‘drive or thrust back’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400rapeler‘to call back, call in, call after, revoke’
- Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400repeler
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1592repeal
Earliest quotation: c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]: “[…] I here divorce myself Both from thy table,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘to drive, strike, thrust’
film, felt, simple, simply, push, filter, powder, complain, fold, pillow, flaw, pollen, palate, palladium, palpable, palatable, polemic, pall, wallow, peloton, tuple, pollinate, muffle, apoplexy, pulver, palatal, pillion, interpolate, palp, peplum, 62 more
through Proto-Italic *pelnō ‘to approach’
through Latin pellō ‘push or strike’
pulse, appeal, compulsory, propulsion, expulsion, compulsive, appellate, compel, expel, propel, dispel, pelt, repel, impel, rappel, 14 more
through Latin repellō ‘drive or thrust back’
Today it means
verb To cancel, invalidate, annul.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pellō / repeal