arrepender

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.

arrepender (first-person singular present arrependo, first-person singular preterite arrependi, past participle arrependido)

1. (pronominal) to repent (to feel bad about one’s past misdeeds)

   Nunca me arrependerei.

   I shall never repent.

2. (pronominal) to regret (to feel bad about about having done something) [with de ‘something’ or de (+ infinitive or personal infinitive) ‘doing someting’]

   Os terroristas se arrependeram do ataque.

   The terrorists regretted the attack.

   Farei vocês se arrependerem de ter nascido.

   I will make you regret having been born.

• arrependido
• arrependimento