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 eō (“to go”), from Proto-Italic *eō, 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)
- (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.
- (by extension) that will (eventually) return
- 1825, Vincenzo Monti (translator), Iliade, Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio. (1840), p. 271, Libro XIII, vv. 49-50:
Further reading
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.diˈtuː.roː/, [rɛd̪ɪˈt̪uːroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.diˈtu.ro/, [red̪iˈt̪uːro]
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