repono

See also: repoño

Latin

Etymology

    From re- + pōnō (“put”).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    repōnō (present infinitive repōnere, perfect active reposuī or reposīvī, supine repositum or repostum); third conjugation

    1. to put back
    2. (medicine) to put back, return a bone to its proper place, to reduce a dislocation
      Near-synonym: recompōnō
      ossa recompōnere ― to set bones back in their place
    3. to restore
    4. to store
    5. to reposit
    6. to replace
    7. to return

    Conjugation

    1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

    Descendants

    • English: repone, repose, reposit
    • French: reposer (in part), répondre (possible; unconfirmed)
    • Galician: repoñer, repor
    • German: reponieren
    • Italian: riporre
    • Occitan: repondre
    • Portuguese: repor
    • Romanian: răpune, repune
    • Sicilian: ripùniri
    • Spanish: reponer
    • Walloon: respouner

    References

    • “repono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “repono”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “repono”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to deify a person: aliquem in deorum numerum referre, reponere
    • repono in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016