repose

pronunciation

How to pronounce repose in British English: UK [rɪˈpəʊz] word uk audio image

How to pronounce repose in American English: US [rɪˈpoʊz] word us audio image

Noun:

freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
the absence of mental stress or anxiety
a disposition free from stress or emotion
Verb:

put or confide something in a person or thing
be inherent or innate in
lie when dead
lean in a comfortable resting position
put in a horizontal position
to put something (eg trust) in something

Word Origin

repose: repose: Repose ‘rest’ [15] and repose ‘place’ [15] (as in ‘repose confidence in someone’) are distinct words in English. The former comes via Old French reposer from late Latin repausāre, a compound verb based on pausāre ‘rest’ (source of English pause). The latter was an English coinage, formed from the prefix re- and the verb pose ‘place’. It was modelled on Latin repōnere ‘replace’, whose derivative repositorium has given English repository [15].=> pause; position, repository

repose (v.1): "lie at rest," mid-15c., from Middle French reposer, from Old French repauser (10c.), from Late Latin repausare "cause to rest," from Latin re-, here probably an intensive prefix (see re-), + Late Latin pausare "to stop" (see pause (v.)). Related: Reposed; reposing.

repose (v.2): "put, place," mid-15c., from Latin repos-, stem of reponere "put back, set back, replace, restore; put away, lay out, stretch out," from re- "back, away" (see re-) + ponere "to put, place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)). Or perhaps [Klein] formed in Middle English from Old French poser, on model of disposen "dispose."

repose (n.): "rest," c. 1500, from Middle French repos (11c.), back-formation from reposer (see repose (v.1)).

3. At the same time that weary men demand repose , accomplished facts demand guarantees .