Etymograph

English

repugnatorial

Repugnatorial comes from Latin repugnatorius ‘defensive, repulsive’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErepugnatorius‘defensive, repulsive’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1909repugnatorial

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErepugnatorius‘defensive, repulsive’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1909repugnatorial

Earliest quotation: 1909, Alpheus S. Packard, A Text-Book of Entomology: “Certain beetles are endowed with eversible repugnatorial glands. Eleodes…”.

Every English word from Latin repugnatorius

Today it means

adj Defensive or repulsive, particularly as applied to glands of certain invertebrates, with which they produce poisonous or repugnant secretions when under threat.

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Etymograph / Latin repugnatorius / repugnatorial

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