The corpus record — Latin

rĕd-ămo

rĕd-ămo · v. a

to love back

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What it meant

rĕd-ămo — Lewis & Short

rĕd-ămo, āre, v. a.,

I to love back, love in return, return love for love (formed by Cic. after the Gr. a)ntifilei=n): qui vel amare vel, ut ita dicam, redamare possit, Cic. Lae). 14, 49; also in late Lat., Macr. S. 6, 9, 6; Symm. Ep. 3, 2; Ambros. in Luc. 5, § 75; Leo M. Sern. 72; App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 19, 18.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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