reprisal

reprisal

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman reprisaille (French représaille), from Old Italian ripresaglia (Italian rappresaglia), from ripreso, past participle of riprendere (“to take back”), from Latin reprendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpɹaɪzəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪzəl

Noun

reprisal (countable and uncountable, plural reprisals)

1. An act of retaliation.
2. (archaic) Something taken from an enemy in retaliation.
3. (archaic) The act of taking something from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnity.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 1, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:revenge

Translations

retaliation

Belarusian: распра́ва f (raspráva) Czech: odplata f, represe f, represálie f, odveta f Finnish: kosto (fi), kostoisku French: représailles (fr) f pl Old French: merche f German: Vergeltungsmaßnahme (de) f, Repressalie (de) f, Vergeltungsschlag (de) m, Vergeltungsakt m Hungarian: megtorlás (hu) Irish: díoltas m Italian: ritorsione (it) Japanese: 報復 (ja) (ほうふく, hōfuku) Korean: 보복(報復) (ko) (bobok) Maori: ngakinga Norwegian: Bokmål: represalie m Nynorsk: represalie m Russian: распра́ва (ru) f (raspráva), отве́тная ме́ра f (otvétnaja méra) Scottish Gaelic: dìoghaltas m, aicheamhail f Spanish: represalia (es) f Turkish: misilleme (tr) Ukrainian: розпра́ва f (rozpráva)

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