redamo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈda.mo/
- Rhymes: -amo
- Hyphenation: re‧dà‧mo
Latin
Etymology
From red- (“denoting response”, early prevocalic variant of re-) + amō (“I love”). Coined by Cicero, as a calque of Ancient Greek ἀντιφιλέω (antiphiléō, “to love in return”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.da.moː/, [ˈrɛd̪ämoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈre.da.mo/, [ˈrɛːd̪ämo]
Verb
redamō (present infinitive redamāre, perfect active redamāvī, supine redamātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to requite love, to love back, to love in return, to return love for love
Conjugation
Derived terms
- redamantia (New Latin, rare)
References
- “rĕdămo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “redamo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rĕdămo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,324/1.
- redamo in Ramminger, Johann (2003 February 27 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “redamō” on page 1,588/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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