repetundus

From repeto +‎ -undus (early variant of -endus).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛ.pɛˈtʊn.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [re.peˈt̪un̪.d̪us]

repetundus (feminine repetunda, neuter repetundum); first/second-declension participle

1. (rare) alternative form of repetendus
   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1131:

     Nam beneficium, homini proprium quod datur, prorsum perit, / quod datum utendum est, id repetundi copia est quando velis.

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   • 70 BCE, Cicero, Divinatio in Caecilium 17.4:

     Reliquum est iam ut illud quaeramus, cum hoc constet, Siculos a me petisse, ecquid hanc rem apud vos animosque vestros valere oporteat, ecquid auctoritatis apud vos in suo iure repetundo socii populi Romani, supplices vestri, habere debeant.

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   • 86 BCE – c. 35 BCE, Sallust, The histories (fragments) 1.Oratio Lepidi.6:

     Quin solus omnium post memoriam humani <generis> supplicia in post futuros conposuit, quis prius iniuria quam vita certa esset, pravissumeque per sceleris inmanitatem adhuc tutus fuit, dum vos metu gravioris serviti a repetunda libertate terremini.

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Other than a handful of exceptions (quoted above), used only in legal formulas as a modifier of the ablative or genitive plural of pecūnia (with the noun sometimes omitted by ellipsis).

First/second-declension adjective.