The corpus record — Latin

redimio

to bind round

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Where it lives

Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. rĕdĭmĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕdĭmĭo, ĭi, ītum, 4 (

I imperf. redimibat, Verg. A. 10, 538; Aus. Epigr. 94), v. a. etym. dub., to bind round, wreathe round, encircle, gird, crown, etc. (mostly poet.; syn.: cingo, circumdo).

(a) In the verb finit.: caput atque umeros plexis redimire coronis, Lucr. 5, 1399: cui tempora vittā, Verg. A. 10, 538: mitrā capillos, Ov. H. 9, 63: crinem corymbis, Stat. S. 1, 5, 16: chelyn, id. ib. 4, 8, 38: frontem coronā, Mart. 8, 70, 5 al.: sertis redimiri jubebis et rosā? Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 43: lauro tabellas, Ov. Am. 1, 11, 25; cf.: fastigium aedis tintinnabulis, Suet. Aug. 91: hortum floribus, Col. poët. 10, 286. —Poet.: nec sic innumeros arcu mutante colores Incipiens redimitur hiems, is girt round, environed, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 99.—

(b) In part. perf.: sertis redimiti, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; cf.: redimitus coronis, id. Rep. 4, 5, 10: anguineo redimita capillo Frons, Cat. 64, 193: frons corymbis, Tib. 1, 7, 45: frons regium in morem, Flor. 3, 19, 10; Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 21; cf.: domus floridis corollis, Cat. 63, 66: navigia variarum coronarum genere, Suet. Vit. 10; Plin. 37, 6, 23, § 87; v. Sillig ad h. l.: loca silvis, girt round, surrounded, Cat. 63, 3; cf.: Naxos Aegaeo ponto, Sen. Oedip. 487.— Absol.: missile, the wreathed thyrsus, Stat. Achill. 1, 612: cervix, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 246.— In a poet. construction: redimitus tempora lauro, quercu, mitrā, etc., Tib. 3, 4, 23; Verg. G. 1, 349; Ov. M. 14, 654; 9, 3; id. F. 3, 269; 669; 4, 661; cf.: caput harundine redimitus, Vell. 2, 83, 2 al.

2. redimiö — Walde–Hofmann

redimiö, -ium, -ire „umwinde, bekränze* (seit Catull, redimitus, Abl. -à „die Umwindung* Sol), redimiculum, -i n. ,Stirnband, Band“ (seit Plaut): — wohl nach Niedermann IA. 19, 34 (m. Lit.) als *red-imiü bel. infula, wenn aus *m-dhla, oben 1 689) zu ai. yamati, yacchati „hält, hält zusammen, zügelt*, yámah „Zügel“, ydntram „Strang, Band* usw. (s. unter emö 1 401) — Ganz unsicher zieht hierher v. Blumenthal IF. 50, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. redimiö, p. 1331]

In the wild

redimitus Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.238
redimitus Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.3
redimitus Petronius, Satyricon 41
redimitus Seneca, Oedipus 1
redimitus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.278
redimitus Vergil, Aeneid 3.81

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. redimiö (scan p. 1331; entry #2260). Root candidates: *de-.

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