repeto

From re- +‎ petō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈre.pe.toː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.pe.to/,

repetō (present infinitive repetere, perfect active repetīvī or repetiī, supine repetītum); third conjugation

1. to attack again; to go back to
   • 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles 1.7:

     Macra cavum repetes artum quem macra subisti

     Thin, you will return to the narrow cave that you entered thin

2. to recommence, resume, renew or repeat an action
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.948:

     tunc repetam, nunc mē grandius urget opus

     Then, I will resume ; now, much greater work impels me.
     (Ovid concludes Book Four, having briefly introduced Flora (mythology) and her festival, which the poet will feature in Book Five.)

3. to recount, to recall, to recollect
4. to demand, claim, reclaim

   Synonyms: requīrō, rogō, exigō, precor, petō, efflagitō, rogitō, flagitō, exōrō, expetō

   res repetere ― to demand the redress/ to seek redress

   • Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, I, 32 :

     hoc tum modo [...] repetitae res

     Then in this manner the redress having been sought

   Synonym: peto

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

• repetītiō
• repetunda

• “repeto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• repeto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “repeto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• repeto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to demand restitution, satisfaction: res repetere
    
  • to recall to mind a thing or person: memoriam alicuius rei repetere
    
  • to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
    
  • to quote Socrates as a model of virtue: a Socrate exemplum virtutis petere, repetere
    
  • to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus
    
  • to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re)
    
  • to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): originem verbi repetere a...
    
  • to revenge oneself on another for a thing or on some one's behalf: poenas alicuius or alicuius rei repetere ab aliquo
    
  • to exact a penalty from some one: poenam petere, repetere ab aliquo
    
  • to demand satisfaction, restitution: res repetere (ab aliquo) (Off. 1. 11. 36)
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “repetere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 266