repeto
Latin
Etymology
From re- + petō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.pe.toː/, [ˈrɛpɛt̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.pe.to/, [ˈrɛːpet̪o]
Verb
repetō (present infinitive repetere, perfect active repetīvī or repetiī, supine repetītum); third conjugation
- I attack again
- I recommence, resume, renew or repeat an action
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.948:
- tunc repetam, nunc mē grandius urget opus
- Then, I will resume [that theme]; now, much greater work impels me.
(Ovid concludes Book Four, having briefly introduced Flora (mythology) and her festival, which the poet will feature in Book Five.)
- Then, I will resume [that theme]; now, much greater work impels me.
- tunc repetam, nunc mē grandius urget opus
- I recount, I recall, I recollect
- I demand, claim, reclaim
- Synonyms: requīrō, rogō, exigō, precor, petō, efflagitō, rogitō, flagitō, exōrō, expetō
- res repetere ― to demand the redress/ to seek redress
- Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, I, 32 :
- hoc tum modo [...] repetitae res
- Then in this manner the redress having been sought
- hoc tum modo [...] repetitae res
- Synonym: peto
Conjugation
| Conjugation of repetō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | repetō | repetis | repetit | repetimus | repetitis | repetunt |
| imperfect | repetēbam | repetēbās | repetēbat | repetēbāmus | repetēbātis | repetēbant | |
| future | repetam | repetēs | repetet | repetēmus | repetētis | repetent | |
| perfect | repetīvī, repetiī | repetīvistī, repetiistī, repetīstī1 | repetīvit, repetiit, repetīt1 | repetīvimus, repetiimus, repetīmus1 | repetīvistis, repetiistis, repetīstis1 | repetīvērunt, repetīvēre, repetiērunt, repetiēre, repetīrunt1 | |
| pluperfect | repetīveram, repetieram, repetīram1 | repetīverās, repetierās, repetīrās1 | repetīverat, repetierat, repetīrat1 | repetīverāmus, repetierāmus, repetīrāmus1 | repetīverātis, repetierātis, repetīrātis1 | repetīverant, repetierant, repetīrant1 | |
| future perfect | repetīverō, repetierō, repetīrō1 | repetīveris, repetieris, repetīris1 | repetīverit, repetierit, repetīrit1 | repetīverimus, repetierimus, repetīrimus1 | repetīveritis, repetieritis, repetīritis1 | repetīverint, repetierint, repetīrint1 | |
| passive | present | repetor | repeteris, repetere | repetitur | repetimur | repetiminī | repetuntur |
| imperfect | repetēbar | repetēbāris, repetēbāre | repetēbātur | repetēbāmur | repetēbāminī | repetēbantur | |
| future | repetar | repetēris, repetēre | repetētur | repetēmur | repetēminī | repetentur | |
| perfect | repetītus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | repetītus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | repetītus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | repetam | repetās | repetat | repetāmus | repetātis | repetant |
| imperfect | repeterem | repeterēs | repeteret | repeterēmus | repeterētis | repeterent | |
| perfect | repetīverim, repetierim, repetīrim1 | repetīverīs, repetierīs, repetīrīs1 | repetīverit, repetierit, repetīrit1 | repetīverīmus, repetierīmus, repetīrīmus1 | repetīverītis, repetierītis, repetīrītis1 | repetīverint, repetierint, repetīrint1 | |
| pluperfect | repetīvissem, repetiissem, repetīssem1 | repetīvissēs, repetiissēs, repetīssēs1 | repetīvisset, repetiisset, repetīsset1 | repetīvissēmus, repetiissēmus, repetīssēmus1 | repetīvissētis, repetiissētis, repetīssētis1 | repetīvissent, repetiissent, repetīssent1 | |
| passive | present | repetar | repetāris, repetāre | repetātur | repetāmur | repetāminī | repetantur |
| imperfect | repeterer | repeterēris, repeterēre | repeterētur | repeterēmur | repeterēminī | repeterentur | |
| perfect | repetītus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | repetītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | repete | — | — | repetite | — |
| future | — | repetitō | repetitō | — | repetitōte | repetuntō | |
| passive | present | — | repetere | — | — | repetiminī | — |
| future | — | repetitor | repetitor | — | — | repetuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | repetere | repetīvisse, repetiisse, repetīsse1 | repetītūrum esse | repetī | repetītum esse | repetītum īrī | |
| participles | repetēns | — | repetītūrus | — | repetītus | repetendus, repetundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| repetendī | repetendō | repetendum | repetendō | repetītum | repetītū | ||
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
- repetītiō
- repetunda
Descendants
Descendants
- Inherited:
- Old French: repeïr (hapax)
- Neapolitan: arəpətá (Abruzzo)
- Sicilian: arripitari
- Borrowed:
- → Asturian: repetir
- → Catalan: repetir
- → Danish: repetere
- → Dutch: repeteren
- → Esperanto: ripeti
- → Galician: repetir
- → German: repetieren
- → Ido: repetar
- → Interlingua: repeter
- → Italian: ripetere
- → Friulian: ripeti
- → Norwegian: repetere
- → Occitan: repetir
- → Old French: repeter
- Middle French: repeter
- French: répéter
- → Middle English: repeten
- English: repeat
- Norman: èrpéter (Jersey), répetar (Guernsey)
- Middle French: repeter
- → Polish: repetować
- → Portuguese: repetir
- → Romanian: repeta
- → Romansch: repeter
- → Sardinian: repetire
- → Sicilian: ripètiri
- → Spanish: repetir
- Papiamentu: ripití
- → Swedish: repetera
References
- “repeto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- repeto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “repeto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- repeto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to demand restitution, satisfaction: res repetere
- to recall to mind a thing or person: memoriam alicuius rei repetere
- to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
- to quote Socrates as a model of virtue: a Socrate exemplum virtutis petere, repetere
- to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
- to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re)
- to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): originem verbi repetere a...
- to revenge oneself on another for a thing or on some one's behalf: poenas alicuius or alicuius rei repetere ab aliquo
- to exact a penalty from some one: poenam petere, repetere ab aliquo
- to demand satisfaction, restitution: res repetere (ab aliquo) (Off. 1. 11. 36)
- to demand restitution, satisfaction: res repetere
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “repetere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 266