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Latin
Etymology
From re- (“back”) + neō (“spin; weave”).
Pronunciation
Verb
reneō (present infinitive renēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- (transitive, rare, poetic) to unspin, to undo, to unravel
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti, Book 6, Lines 757-758.
- At Clymenus Clothoque dolent, haec fila reneri, hic fieri regni iura minora sui.
Conjugation
References
- “reneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “reneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers