repente

repente is a Latin form of repens, meaning “sudden, unexpected; (repente) suddenly”. It is the adverb or ablative singular masculine adverb.

Found 728 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.52.3: Ita nostri acriter in hostes signo dato impetum fecerunt itaque hostes repente celeriterque procurrerunt, ut spatium pila in hostes coiciendi non daretur.

Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2.639: noctem únam modo; átque is repénte abiit á me hinc ánte lucem.

All forms of repens (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.