restitutio Latin · revision 34435

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la statuō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''restitūtiō''' ''f'' (genitive restitūtiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|restituō|-tiō|t1=to restore]], a noun of action.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|re-|t=back, again]] and [[m|la|statuō|t=to set up]].^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of the ''restitutio damnatorum'', the reinstatement of condemned men, and of his own restoration to his former fortune.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means rebuilding: Livy has the ''restitutio'' of a temple, and Suetonius that of the Palatine house destroyed by fire, of Pompey's theatre and of the towns struck by Vesuvius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More widely it is the renewal of something lost, such as liberty or a former fortune.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of the recall of an exile, his own included.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) In law ''restitutio in integrum'' was the praetor's annulment of proceedings that put the parties back where they had started,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and the jurists use it of returning property to its owner and of handing over the accounts of a guardianship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means restitution and reinstatement.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval writers in Britain use it of the restoring of health, of buildings and of a former state in general.^(DMLBS) English took it over in the early 14th century as [[m|en|restitution]], first for making good a debt or injury.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the reinstatement of condemned men.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of the rebuilding of a temple.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of rebuilding after a fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of returning property to its owner.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 14th century – English borrows it as ''restitution''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|rebuilding|alt=Rebuilding]], restoration of a structure.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Re-establishment, [[m|en|renewal]] of something lost.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|reinstatement|alt=Reinstatement]] of an exile or a condemned person.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(law)'' ''restitūtiō in integrum'': the annulment of proceedings that restores the parties to their former position.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(law)'' Return of property to its owner, ''restitution''; the rendering of a guardian's accounts.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Restoration of health.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|restitution]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}