Other forms: repercussions
A repercussion is an indirect result felt some way off. Serious repercussions, the repercussions of the decision, face the repercussions.
It is nearly always plural and nearly always unwelcome, since nobody warns you about good repercussions. The Latin means a striking back, which is the image of a blow rebounding.
1nounrepercussionAn indirect result felt some way off.
“The closure of the mine had serious repercussions for shops across the whole region.”
repercussion is a consequence.
Latin repercussio comes from repercutere, to strike back, from re plus quatere, to shake.
Latin
repercussio — rebounding; repercussion
Middle French
répercussion
English, today
repercussion
Built from
From Middle French répercussion, from Latin repercussio (“rebounding; repercussion”), from repercutio (“cause to rebound, reflect, strike against”), from re- + percutio (“beat, strike”), from per- (“thoroughly”) + quatio (“shake”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA