Etymology

obreption

O1B3R1E1P3T1I1O1N1

Today it means: The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise. Full definition →

Latin obreptio
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromobreptio
  2. English todayobreption

From Latin obreptio, from obrepo, obreptum (“to creep up to”), from ob (see prefix ob-) + repo (“to creep”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.