rependo Latin · revision 32977

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *(s)pend-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rependō''' (present infinitive rependere, perfect active repependī, supine repēnsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|pendō|t2=to weigh]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|pendō]] to [[itc-pro|*pend-e/o-|t=to hang, weigh]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)pend-e/o-|t=to spin]]: the verb went from putting in a hanging position to weighing out and paying.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation in the OLD is Cicero's, of the gold weighed out to Septumuleius for the head of Gaius Gracchus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to weigh out an equal amount, and to balance against: Pliny the Elder says Ravenna grows asparagus three to the pound.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Velleius uses it of paying weight for weight in gold.^(OLD 2012) Propertius and Ovid use it of weighing back the spun wool to a mistress.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More generally it is to pay in return or as a due, as in Virgil's if I repay great things, and in Seneca's ''Oedipus'' the speaker can never pay a penalty equal to his crimes.^(OLD 2012) It is also to requite a service or injury, as Ovid's do you repay the saving of a life with this dowry?, and to buy back: Horace asks if a soldier ransomed with gold will come back the braver.^(OLD 2012) Finally it is to make up for or balance, as in Ovid's one fault balanced by another.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to repay, reward or requite.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of gold weighed out for a head.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of repaying.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of ransoming a soldier.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 20 BC–30 AD – Velleius of paying weight for weight.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of asparagus weighed by the pound.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|weigh]] out an equal amount; to balance against.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To weigh back; to pay weight for weight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To pay in return, [[m|en|repay]]; to pay (a penalty or due).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|requite]] (a service or injury); to buy, ransom.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make up for, [[m|en|compensate]], balance.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pendo|alt=pendō]]

+ * [[compenso|alt=compēnsō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}