repono Latin · revision 30843

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la re-, la pōnō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈpoː.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈpɔː.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''repōnō''' (present infinitive repōnere, perfect active reposuī or reposīvī, supine repositum or repostum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the old perfect ''reposīvī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Poets use the syncopated participle ''repostus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|re-|pōnō|t1=back, again|t2=to put, place]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|pōnō]] as ⟨*po-sinō⟩ “to put down”, with the old perfect ⟨-posīvī⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Asinaria'': ''sī reposīvī rēmum'', “if I have laid down the oar”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to put something back in its place, to replace something, and to serve food again or replace it with a fresh course (Virgil).^(OLD 2012) Horace uses it of bringing a character back onto the stage, and of restoring lost virtue.^(OLD 2012) It is also to repay benefits or injuries (Horace), and to put one thing in place of another (Cicero).^(OLD 2012) Ennius' cranes set down their legs, and Lucretius has a head laid back.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Another set of senses is to put away for keeping, store up, also in records or in the memory (Quintilian), to lay something down out of use, and to lay a body to rest.^(OLD 2012) With ''in'' it is to place in a class, and to rest one's hopes or a case on someone (Cicero).^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “keep, preserve, place, set back”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of laying down an oar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of cranes setting down their legs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of storing up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of resting a case on the judges.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of bringing Achilles back on the stage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To put back, [[m|en|replace]]; to [[m|en|restore]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To serve again (food or drink).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To repay, requite; to put in place of something else.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To lay down; to lay back.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To put away, [[m|en|store]]; to keep (in memory or records).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To lay to rest (a body).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To place (in a class); to rest (hopes) on.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(medicine)'' To set (a dislocated bone).^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repositiō]]

+ * [[repositōrium]]

+ * [[repostor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pōnō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}