reditus

Latin

Etymology

From redeō (“return”).

Noun

reditus m (genitive reditūs); fourth declension

1. A returning, turning back, going back; return.
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:

     […] dum ne quem militem legeret ex eo numero quibus senatus missionem reditumque in patriam negasset ante belli finem.

     […] provided he did not choose any soldier from those to whom the Senate had refused discharge and a return home before the end of the war

2. (of celestial bodies) A revolution, circuit, return.
3. (agriculture) A harvest, yield.
4. (figuratively) A return, revenue, income, proceeds, yield, output, profit.
5. (figuratively) A restoration, return.

Usage notes

• In Classical Latin, not to be confused with redditus.
• In Medieval Latin, sometimes used as a participle instead of redditus.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	reditus	reditūs
Genitive	reditūs	redituum
Dative	redituī	reditibus
Accusative	reditum	reditūs
Ablative	reditū	reditibus
Vocative	reditus	reditūs

Related terms

• redeō
• reditiō

Descendants

• Aragonese: reuto
• Portuguese: rédito
• Spanish: rédito

References

• “reditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reditus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• reditus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.