The corpus record — Latin

retribuo

retribuo · v. a

to give back

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Where it lives

Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 1 · 2.1/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 2 · 1.78/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 4 · 0.91/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.65/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

rē^-trĭbŭo — Lewis & Short

rē^-trĭbŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.,

I to give back, return, restore, repay (class., but freq. only in eccl. Lat.; syn. remuneror).

I Lit.: corpora retribuat rebus recreetque fluentes, Lucr. 5, 275: populo pecuniam acceptam, Liv. 2, 41, 8: fructum quem meruerunt, Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 44: aliena suis, Paul. Nol. Carm. 32, 514: quodcunque aliud acceperis, potes cum libuit retribuere, App. Mag. p. 332, 24.—

II Trop.: vicem alicui, to repay, requite, Lact. 6, 18, 22: retributionem gentibus, Vulg. 1 Macc. 2, 68: justis bona, id. Prov. 13, 21.

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