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The corpus record — Latin

restito

restito

to stay behind

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Where it lives

What it meant

rēstĭto — Lewis & Short

rēstĭto, āre,

I v. freq. n. [resto], to stay behind, to loiter, tarry, hesitate (ante-class., and several times in Liv. and Pliny the Elder): restitant, occurrunt, obstant, etc., Enn. ap. Non. 147, 10 (Sat. 5 Vahl.): me miserum restitando reddiderunt, Plaut. Capt. 3, 2, 3: at enim restitas, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 1; Liv. 7, 39 fin. Drak.; 10, 19; 30, 31; Plin. 18, 16, 19, § 50: Menelaus me objurgat? id meis rebus regimen restitat, Enn. ap. Rufin. Fig. § 11, p. 205 Ruhnk. (Trag. v. 264 Vahl.).

In the wild

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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