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 (to go), from Proto-Italic *, 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

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Pronunciation

Participle

reditūrō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of reditūrus
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