Other forms: revolts, revolted, revolting
A revolt is an armed rising against those in power. The peasants' revolt, put down the revolt, in revolt.
It is smaller than a revolution, which succeeds and changes the system, and larger than a protest. A backbench revolt is the parliamentary version, where a party's own members vote against it. As a verb, revolt also means to disgust — the smell revolted him — which is a separate sense that came from the idea of turning away. Note revolting, which now means disgusting almost exclusively.
1nounrevoltAn armed rising against those in power.
“The army crushed the revolt within days and hanged its leaders.”
2verbdisgustTo disgust somebody.
“The sight of the dirty kitchen revolted her so much that she refused to eat there.”
revolt is an uprising, or a disgusting.
French révolter comes through Italian from Latin revolvere, to roll back. Revolve, revolution and revolt are the same turning, and a revolution was originally just a turn of a wheel.
Latin
revolvō — roll back
Vulgar Latin
*revoltāre
Italian
rivoltare
French
révolter
English, today
revolt
French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin revoltāre < revolvitāre, for revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus). Compare typologically переворо́т (akin to верте́ть.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA