repetundae

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

  1. 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; [...]
  2. bribery

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative repetundae
genitive repetundārum
dative repetundīs
accusative repetundās
ablative repetundīs
vocative repetundae

Participle

repetundae

  1. inflection of repetundus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine plural
    2. 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
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