arrepender

Betekenis

1. (pronominal) to repent (to feel bad about one’s past misdeeds)
2. (pronominal) to regret (to feel bad about about having done something)

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/a.ʁe.pẽˈde(ʁ)/

Etimologie

From a- + Old Galician-Portuguese repender, repeender, from Early Medieval Latin repoenitēre, from Latin paenitēre. Suffixation perhaps to avoid confusion with the unrelated Portuguese pender (“hang”).
Compare Galician arrepender, Spanish arrepentirse.