remetior Latin · revision 33418

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *meh1-ti-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈmeː.ti.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈmɛt.t͡si.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''remētior''' (present infinitive remētīrī, perfect active remēnsus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ The TLL notes the spelling ''remit-'' in manuscripts of the Old Latin Bible.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|mētior|t1=back, again|t2=to measure]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|mētior]] as made from a noun [[itc-pro|*mēti-|t=measurement]], [[ine-pro|*meh1-ti-|t=measurement]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|μῆτις|tr=mêtis|t=wisdom, skill]] and [[sa|मिमीते|tr=mímīte|t=measures]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucretius uses it of a path measured back again: ''iter retro remensumst''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil uses it of going back over the stars one has watched, and in a passive sense of the sea crossed again, ''pelago remenso''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder has a runner who covered the stadia from Sicyon to Elis and back again,^(OLD 2012) and Statius a road travelled again.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the declamations ascribed to Quintilian it is to pay back the value of grain in money.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca and Martial use it of bringing up again what has been drunk.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to go back over something in thought or words: Seneca reviews his deeds and words of the day, Apuleius retells a story,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Statius retraces history.^(OLD 2012) The Vulgate uses it passively, “it will be measured back”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to measure again.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of a path measured back.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of stars and of the sea crossed again.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of reviewing the day.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, of measuring back.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|measure]] back; to return an equal amount of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To cover (a distance) again or in the reverse direction, travel back over, [[m|en|retrace]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bring up again, give back (what was drunk).^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To go back over in thought or speech, review, retell.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mētior]]

+ * [[mēnsūra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}