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redition
Redition comes from Latin reditio ‘returning, return, a going back’, and goes back to eō ‘go’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeō‘go’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEredeōas redire‘to go, move, turn or come back’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEreditio‘returning, return, a going back’
- Englishearliest quotation 1614–1615redition
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeō‘go’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEredeōas redire‘to go, move, turn or come back’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEreditio‘returning, return, a going back’
- Englishearliest quotation 1614–1615redition
Earliest quotation: 1614–1615, Homer, The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys: “The selfe same way shee came doth make retreate,…”
Linked words
through Latin eō ‘go’
issue, initial, exit, transition, ambient, trance, ambitious, transient, obituary, ambition, eyre, ambiance, transitory, transitive, praetorian, praetor, ambit, obit, sedition, seditious, 23 more
Today it means
noun The act of returning; a return.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin eō / redition