English
repulser
From repulse + -er.
Formed from repulse + -er
Proto-Italic *wre- ‘back, backwards’
Proto-Italic *pelnō ‘to approach’
Latin pellō ‘push, drive’
Latin repellō ‘to drive, push or thrust back or away’
Latin repulsus ‘having been rejected, repulsed, repelled’
English repulse
Today it means
noun One who repulses or drives back.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / repulser