Noun: repetundae
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Sample Sentences
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Ceterum composita seditione civili Cornelium Dolabellam consularem et triumphalem repetundarum postulavit; [...] (Now, already leading civil trouble, he (Caesar) charge Cornelius Dolabella of extortion, a consul who had had the honour of a triumph; …) [121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume 1.4:]
Nouns inflected like repetundae
favissae,
obsequiae,
convenae,
fendicae,
phalerae,
repetundae,
geusiae,
encolpiae,
grallae,
fimbriae,
noneolae,
canicae,
brasmatiae,
glandulae,
calendae,
fidiculae,
exsequiae,
turbellae,
colliciae,
subpetiae, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Ellipsis of pecuniae repetundae (“(sums of) money to be given, reclaimed back”). See pecunia and repetundus.
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