Latin

Verb

repetō ‎(present infinitive repetere, perfect active repetīvī, supine repetītum); third conjugation

1. I attack again
2. I recommence, resume, renew or repeat an action
3. I recount
4. I return

Inflection

Descendants

References

• repeto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• repeto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “repeto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to demand restitution, satisfaction: res repetere
    
  • to recall to mind a thing or person: memoriam alicuius rei repetere
    
  • to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
    
  • to quote Socrates as a model of virtue: a Socrate exemplum virtutis petere, repetere
    
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re)
    
  • to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): originem verbi repetere a...
    
  • to revenge oneself on another for a thing or on some one's behalf: poenas alicuius or alicuius rei repetere ab aliquo
    
  • to exact a penalty from some one: poenam petere, repetere ab aliquo
    
  • to demand satisfaction, restitution: res repetere (ab aliquo) (Off. 1. 11. 36)