repetunda

Latin

Etymology

From repetō

Noun

repetunda f (genitive repetundae); first declension

1. recovery (of money)
2. (in the plural) extortion

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	repetunda	repetundae
genitive	repetundae	repetundārum
dative	repetundae	repetundīs
accusative	repetundam	repetundās
ablative	repetundā	repetundīs
vocative	repetunda	repetundae

References

• repetunda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to accuse a person of extortion (to recover the sums extorted): postulare aliquem repetundarum or de repetundis