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
- 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
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rɛ.dɪˈtuː.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [re.d̪iˈt̪uː.ro]
Participle
reditūrō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of reditūrus