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reincipio

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Forms

reincipiō (present infinitive reincipere); third conjugation[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin re- (“again”) + incipiō (“to begin”).[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Gennadius (end of the 5th century AD) uses it in his Lives of Illustrious Men, of the Easter feast that should begin again, reincipiat, on the day on which Christ rose.[3][2][4]

Semantic evolution

It stayed rare.[3] Neo-Latin writers used it again, also in the form redincipio: Petrarch writes in a letter that the year begins again as it ends, desinendoque reincipit annus, and it appears in commentaries on Dante and in Luther.[5]

Timeline

  • end of 5th century AD – Gennadius uses it of the Easter feast.[3][4]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To begin again, recommence.[3][2][1][5]

Usage notes

Neo-Latin also writes redincipio.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  2. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  3. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b c Ramminger, Johann, Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, www.neulatein.de