repo

Clippings.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːpoʊ/

repo (countable and uncountable, plural repos)

1. (informal) Clipping of repossession. Most commonly of a vehicle, house or condominium.

   Can you do a repo tommorrow? It's an SUV in Springfield.

2. (informal) Clipping of repositioning.

   That cruise ship starts its repo tomorrorow; it's going to the Caribbean for the winter.

3. (countable, finance, informal) A repurchase agreement: a type of derivative which allows a borrower to use a financial security as collateral for a cash loan at a fixed interest rate.
4. (countable, computing, informal) Clipping of repository (“storage location for files”).

   Hyponym: monorepo

• repo depot
• repo man
• reverse repo

repo (third-person singular simple present repos, present participle repoing, simple past and past participle repoed)

1. (transitive, informal) repossess

   I had my car repoed when I became unable to keep up the payments.

• Reposession on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Repositioning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Repositioning cruise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Repurchase agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Pero, oper, pore, reop, rope

From clipping of English repost. Equivalent to English re- +‎ po (“post”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹiː²² pʰou̯⁵⁵/

repo

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) to repost

Ultimately from English rap, likely influenced by Russian рэп (rɛp) and to differentiate from rapo (“turnip”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈrepo]
• Rhymes: -epo
• Hyphenation: re‧po

repo (accusative singular repon, plural repoj, accusative plural repojn)

1. (music) a rap; an instance of rapping
2. (music, uncountable) Clipping of repmuziko (“rap music”)

• repi (“to rap”)
• repmuziko (“rap music”)

From Proto-Finnic *repoi, from Proto-Finno-Permic *repä (compare Erzya ривезь (ŕiveź)), borrowed from early Indo-Iranian (compare Proto-Indo-Iranian *HlawpaHćás, Sanskrit लोपि (lopi), Persian روباه (rubâh);[1] Germanic terms like Swedish räv are probably parallel borrowings from Indo-Iranian).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrepo/, [ˈre̞po̞]
• Rhymes: -epo
• Syllabification^(key): re‧po

repo (poetic)

1. (archaic, literary) fox, Vulpes vulpes
   • 2003, “Ketun joululaulu [Fox's Christmas Carol]”, performed by Lauluyhtye Rajaton, lyrics from Kanteletar:

     Niin repo etehen juoksi; repo rukka, raukka poika. Sie oot kengältä kepiä; sekä liukas liikunnalta.

     Thus ran the fox forward; poor fox, wretched boy. You have light shoes; and quick movements.

• kettu
• repolainen

• repostella

• “repo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• pore, rope

From French repos (“rest”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣepo/

repo

1. rest

• repoi (dialectal)

From Proto-Finnic *repoi, from Proto-Uralic *repä. Cognates include Finnish repo and Estonian rebu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈrepo/, [ˈre̞po̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈrepoi̯/, [ˈre̞b̥o̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -epo, -epoi̯
• Hyphenation: re‧po

repo

1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 19:

     Repo i kana. Repo repi kanan.

     A fox and a hen. The fox snatches the hen.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 41:

     Tere repo, mitä siä tääl issut?

     Hello fox, why are you sitting here?

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:

     — Se ono repo, — sannoo.

     — That is a fox, — he said.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 19
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 471

From Proto-Finnic *repoi. Cognates include Finnish repo and Veps reboi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrepo/
• Hyphenation: re‧po

repo (genitive revon, partitive repuo)

1. (North Karelian) fox

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “repo”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

From Proto-Italic *rēpō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p- (“to creep”).[1] Compare with Latin serpō, as well as Latvian rãpât, râpt, Middle High German reben (“to move, stir”), rebe (“offshoot, bud”), Persian رفتن (raftan, “to go”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.poː/, [ˈreːpoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.po/, [ˈrɛːpo]

rēpō (present infinitive rēpere, perfect active rēpsī, supine rēptum); third conjugation, no passive

1. to creep, crawl

• “repo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “repo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• repo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

repo

1. swamp

From Proto-Slavic *rě̀pa.

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈpɔ/

repo f

1. turnip

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

repo (Cyrillic spelling репо)

1. vocative singular of repa

repo

1. soil

repo

1. dirty

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “repo” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

From Proto-Finnic *repoi.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈrepo/, [ˈrepo]
• Rhymes: -epo
• Hyphenation: re‧po

repo

1. fox

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn