reparabilis Latin · revision 36019

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=la reparō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛ.paˈraː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [re.paˈraː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''reparābilis''' (neuter reparābile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|reparō|-bilis|t1=to restore, recover]],^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) though the TLL allows that it may instead have been formed back from [[irreparābilis]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Ovid,^(Köbler 2010) who writes that the loss of hair can be made good, ''reparabile damnum est'', and that modesty once harmed can be restored by no art.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL finds it in verse from Ovid on, in Lucan and Persius, and in the prose of Seneca, the ''Panegyrici'' and later writers; it has no comparative or superlative.^(TLL) Seneca says that people let themselves be charged with the cheapest things, which can certainly be got back, while no one can return lost time,^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Valerius Flaccus has a dying man looking back at the sky, which no treasure can regain.^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Poets also gave it an active sense, “renewing, restoring”: Calpurnius has a wood that, renewing itself, begins its summer shade, and Persius an echo that repeats a cry.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Ausonius uses it of the phoenix coming back to life.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Christian writers applied it to bodies restored in the resurrection, as Ambrose does.^(TLL)

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+ In British medieval Latin it meant “recoverable”, “that can be replaced” (Orderic Vitalis calls a man ''non reparabilis'', irreplaceable) and, in theological disputes, “that can be restored to grace”.^(DMLBS) English took [[m|en|reparable]] from French in the 1560s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a loss that can be made good.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of things that can be got back.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius uses it of a repeating echo.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 310–394 AD – Ausonius uses it of the phoenix.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1348 – A council's list of errors uses it of the damned as able to be restored to bliss.^(DMLBS)

+ * 1560s – English borrows [[m|en|reparable]] from French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # That can be [[m|en|recover|alt=recovered]] or [[m|en|restore|alt=restored]], [[m|en|retrievable]], [[m|en|reparable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(poetic)'' Renewing or restoring itself; of an echo, repeating.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' That can be restored to a state of [[m|en|grace]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[irreparābilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[reparō]]

+ * [[en|reparable]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}