Catalan

Verb

refuto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of refutar

Japanese

Romanization

refuto

1. rōmaji reading of レフト

Latin

Etymology

From re + -futo ‎(“to beat”), maybe from a substrate root *būt/bŭt, with different realizations per IE branch. Cognate with English beat.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈfuː.toː/, [rɛˈfuː.toː]

Verb

refūtō ‎(present infinitive refūtāre, perfect active refūtāvī, supine refūtātum); first conjugation

1. I check or repress
2. I restrain or oppose
3. I refute

Inflection

Synonyms

• redarguo

References

• refuto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• refuto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “refuto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Portuguese

Verb

refuto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of refutar

Spanish

Verb

refuto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of refutar.