redditio

Forms

redditiō f (genitive redditiōnis); third declension^[1] Also spelled reditio in Christian inscriptions from Africa.^[2]

Etymology

It is from Latin reddō (“to give back”) + -tiō.^[3][2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Quintilian (c. 35–95/96 AD) uses it as a term of rhetoric for the answering clause of a comparison: quod facit redditio contraria, quae antapodosis dicitur (“which the answering clause, called antapodosis, brings about”).^[3][2][4]

Semantic evolution

The jurist Ulpian uses it for the return of a pledge.^[3][5] In Christian writers it is also a recompense, as Cyprian's redditiōnis diēs and the Vulgate's redditiō iūcunditātis,^[6][7] and Augustine speaks of redditiō ratiōnis, the rendering of an account.^[7][5] Rhetoricians also used it for the repetition of a word in a later part of a clause, and Martianus Capella for repetition in general.^[2][7]

In Medieval Latin it meant a reward, a payment, a due or tribute, income or profit, and a report or account.^[8] British records use it for repayment and the payment of penalties, and in charters for the surrender or conveyance of land.^[9]

Timeline

• c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it for the answering clause of a comparison.^[3][4]
• before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it for the return of a pledge.^[3][4]
• beginning of the 3rd century–258 AD – Cyprian writes of a redditiōnis diēs, a day of recompense.^[6][4]
• 354–430 AD – Augustine speaks of redditiō ratiōnis, the rendering of an account.^[7][4]
• 1240 – An English record uses it for the payment of a fixed penalty.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of giving back, restoration, return.^[3][7][2]
2. (rhetoric) The answering clause of a comparison, the apodosis.^[3][7][2]
3. (rhetoric) repetition of a word, recurrence.^[2][7]
4. (Late Latin) Recompense, reward; the rendering of an account.^[7][6][10]
5. (Medieval Latin) payment; a due or tribute; income, profit; a report or account.^[8]
6. (Medieval Latin) The surrender or conveyance of land.^[9]

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c d e f g Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
4. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
6. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
7. ^ a b c d e f g h Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
8. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
9. ^ a b c Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
10. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson