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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [ˈrɛ.dɪ.tʊs], [ˈrɛ.dɪ.tuːs][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈrɛː.di.tus], [ˈrɛː.di.tus][1]

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]

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