reditus

Forms

reditus m (genitive reditūs); fourth declension^[1] It is sometimes spelled redditus, perhaps under the influence of reddō.^[2]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin redeō (“to go back, return”) + -tus.^[3][2][1] redeō is red- (“back”) and eō (“to go”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *ei- and Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler and the OLD first record it in Lucilius: hī … reditum tibi tālem portendēbant, “these foretold such a return for you”.^[5][3]

Semantic evolution

Reditus is “a return, coming back” (Cicero: no news yet of Caesar's return), especially from exile (Cicero of his own return), and of things such as the sun's yearly return.^[3][6][1] It is a return to a condition or activity, or to the subject after a digression.^[3] It also means a return in money or kind, “revenue, income, yield” (Nepos), and reditū esse is “to be productive”.^[3][1]

Church Latin glosses it “return, revenue, proceeds, funds”.^[7]

Timeline

• c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius: reditum tibi tālem.^[3][5]
• 81–43 BC – Cicero of his return from exile.^[3][5]
• c. 100–24 BC – Nepos of revenue.^[3][5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A return, coming back; return from exile.^[3][6][1][7]
2. The return or revolution (of a heavenly body).^[3][1]
3. A return (to a condition or subject).^[3][1]
4. revenue, income, yield.^[3][1][7]

Related words

• redeō
• reditiō
• eō

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b 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 h i j k l Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
7. ^ a b c Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson