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- Latin · derived fromreperticius
- Late Latin · derived fromreptitius“creeping”
- English todayreptitious
From Late Latin reptitius (“creeping”), corruption of Latin reperticius, from reptus (“crept, crawled”) + -īcius (“-itious”), from rēpere (“to creep, to crawl”), modified by English -ious, q.v. Cognate with repent, reptant, reptile, reptilious, surreptitious.
Words from the same roots
Latinreperticius all →
repertitious
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.