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redamo

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /reˈda.mo/
  • Rhymes: -amo
  • Hyphenation: re‧dà‧mo

Verb

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redamo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of redamare

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Latin

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Etymology

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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

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Verb

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redamō (present infinitive redamāre, perfect active redamāvī, supine redamātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to requite love, to love back, to love in return, to return love for love

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References

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  • 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[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • redamō” on page 1,588/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)