English
repudiation
Repudiation comes from Latin repudiātiō ‘rejection, refusal’, and goes back to pudeō ‘to feel ashamed, to put to shame’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpudeō‘to feel ashamed, to put to shame’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepudium
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepudiō‘to cast off, reject, repudiate, disdain, rebuff’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepudiātiōas repudiātiōnem‘rejection, refusal’
- Englishearliest quotation 2015repudiation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpudeō‘to feel ashamed, to put to shame’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepudium
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepudiō‘to cast off, reject, repudiate, disdain, rebuff’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErepudiātiōas repudiātiōnem‘rejection, refusal’
- Englishearliest quotation 2015repudiation
Earliest quotation: 2015, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation: “Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation…”
Formed from repudiate + -ion
Latin pudeō ‘to feel ashamed, to put to shame’
Latin repudium ‘repudiation’
Latin repudiō ‘to cast off, reject’
Latin repudiātus ‘rejected, repudiated’
English repudiate
Linked words
through Latin pudeō ‘to feel ashamed, to put to shame’
Today it means
noun The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pudeō / repudiation