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Latin
Etymology
Clipping of pecuniae repetundae (“(sums of) money to be given, reclaimed back”). See pecunia and repetundus.
Noun
repetundae f pl (genitive repetundārum); first declension
- extortion, misappropriation
121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume 1.4:Ceterum composita seditione civili Cornelium Dolabellam consularem et triumphalem repetundarum postulavit; [...]- Now, already leading civil trouble, he (Caesar) charge Cornelius Dolabella of extortion, a consul who had had the honour of a triumph;
- bribery
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Participle
repetundae
- inflection of repetundus:
- nominative/vocative feminine plural
- genitive/dative feminine singular
References
- “repetundae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “repetundae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- repetundae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “repetundae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin