The corpus record — Latin

repetitio

repetitio · f

A demanding back

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Where it lives

Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 8 · 27.54/10k
Institutio Oratoria 15 · 0.87/10k
De Beneficiis 3 · 0.66/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rĕpĕtītĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕpĕtītĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I A demanding back, reclamation, Dig. 50, 17, 41; App. Mag. p. 332, 4; hence, repetitionem habere, i.e. jus repetendi, Dig. 3, 6, 3.—

II A repetition, in speaking or writing: repetitio frequentior ejusdem nominis, Quint. 9, 1, 24: brevis rerum, id. 4, prooem. § 6: probationis ejusdem, id. 8, 3, 88; 9, 3, 22; 6, 1, 1: effugere repetitiones, id. 10, 1, 7: repetitio instauratioque ejusdem rei sub alio nomine, Favorin. ap. Gell. 13, 25 (24), 9: legatorum, Dig. 30, 1, 19. —

2 In partic. rhet. t. t., a repetition of the same word at the beginning of several sentences: anaphora, a)nafora/, Auct. Her. 4, 13, 19: crebra, Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206; Quint. 9, 1, 33; cf. Mart. Cap. 5, § 533.

In the wild

repetitionibus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.12
repetitio Boethius, Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 3
repetitio Boethius, Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 3
repetitionem Seneca, De Beneficiis 7.23.2
repetitio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.1.32
repetitione Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.9.11

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Where it came from

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