repentir

Inherited from Middle French repentir, from Vulgar Latin *repaenitīre, from Late Latin paenitīre, from Classical Latin paenitēre. Compare English repent.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pɑ̃.tiʁ/

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repentir

1. (pronominal) to repent

   Elle ne s’est jamais repentie jusqu’à sa mort.

   She never repented until her death.

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) repens and (il) repent in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *repentis and *repentit (as in the past historic).

repentir m (plural repentirs)

1. repentance

   Near-synonyms: remords, regret

• “repentir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• périrent, prièrent, ripèrent

From Old French repentir.

repentir

1. to repent

• French: repentir

• rappantir, rempentir

From Vulgar Latin *repaenitīre, from Late Latin paenitīre, from Classical Latin paenitēre.

repentir

1. to repent

   Synonym: pentir

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: repentir
  • French: repentir
• Norman: r'penti
• Walloon: ripinti
• → Middle English: repenten
  • English: repent

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pœnĭtēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 120