Where does “repercuss” come from?
repercuss (English) comes from Latin repercusus, from Latin repercutere, from Latin percutere, from Latin percutio, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
repercuss (English): To drive or beat back; To reflect; to reverberate
Definitions
- To drive or beat back; To reflect; to reverberate
Ancestry of “repercuss”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | repercusus | — |
| 2 | Latin | repercutere | present active infinitive of repercutiō;... |
| 3 | Latin | percutere | present active infinitive of percutiō;... |
| 4 | Latin | percutio | I strike, beat; I make an impression on the mind,... |
| 5 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |