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relego
relego
Latin
Etymology 1
From re- (“again”) + legō (“choose, gather”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈre.le.ɡoː/
Verb
relegō (present infinitive relegere, perfect active relēgī, supine relēctum); third conjugation
- I gather, collect again, recover.
- I travel, traverse or sail over or through again.
- I go over or go through again in reading, speech, thought, read, relate or recite again, revise, recount.
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Etymology 2
From re- (“back, again”) + lēgō (“send, dispatch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈleː.ɡoː/
Verb
relēgō (present infinitive relēgāre, perfect active relēgāvī, supine relēgātum); first conjugation
- I despatch, send away.
- I banish, remove to a distance.
- (figuratively) I put aside, reject, remove; shift.
- (figuratively) I refer (to a book or author), attribute, ascribe.
- I bequeath.
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References
- relego in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- relego in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “relego”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.