redemptio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin red-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.

Proto-Italic *emō

Latin emō

Latin redimō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin redēmptiō

From redimō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈdeːmp.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈdɛmp.t͡si.o]

Noun

redēmptiō f (genitive redēmptiōnis); third declension

1. redemption, redeeming (buying back)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	redēmptiō	redēmptiōnēs
genitive	redēmptiōnis	redēmptiōnum
dative	redēmptiōnī	redēmptiōnibus
accusative	redēmptiōnem	redēmptiōnēs
ablative	redēmptiōne	redēmptiōnibus
vocative	redēmptiō	redēmptiōnēs

Descendants

• Old French: raençon
  • French: rançon
  • → Middle Dutch: rasoen, ransoen, rantsoen
    • Dutch: rantsoen (“ransom”)
  • → Middle English: rauncoun
    • English: ransom
    • Scots: ransom
• → Catalan: redempció
• → Dutch: redemptie
• → English: redemption
• → French: rédemption
  • → Romanian: redempțiune
• → Italian: redenzione
• → Portuguese: redenção
• → Spanish: redención

References

• “redemptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “redemptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "redemptio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “redemptio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.