redituro

Italian

FWOTD – 7 October 2016

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin reditūrus (“about to return”), future active participle of redeō (“to go, come back”), derived from eō (“to go”), from Proto-Italic *eō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ey- (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re.diˈtu.ro/
• Rhymes: -uro
• Hyphenation: re‧di‧tù‧ro

Adjective

redituro (feminine reditura, masculine plural redituri, feminine plural rediture)

1. (poetic) about to return
   • 1825, Vincenzo Monti (translator), Iliade, Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio. (1840), p. 271, Libro XIII, vv. 49-50:

     Onde attendean lì fermi il redituro ¶ Re lor, che al campo degli Achei s'indrizza.

     So that they stood there, waiting for their bound to return ¶ King, who directs his steps to the Achaean camp.

   1. (by extension) that will (eventually) return

Further reading

• redituro in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• reditùro in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• redituro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• orditure

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /re.diˈtuː.roː/, [rɛd̪ɪˈt̪uːroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.diˈtu.ro/, [red̪iˈt̪uːro]

Participle

reditūrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of reditūrus