redime
Dictionary entries
- Entry →redimo, redimere, redemi, redemptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
buy back, recover, replace by purchase; buy up; make good, fulfill (promise);; redeem; atone for; ransom; rescue/save; contract for; buy/purchase; buy off;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Quid ? LIB. Si forte in insidias devenero, tun redimes me, si me hostes interceperint? DEM. Redimam..."VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ultimum legerent, ut incertum sit, utrum me carius redimant an lugeant? cognita clade rarissimi uxor exempli et prorsus..."In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...conplexi mulieres inpudicas vino languidi, conferti cibo, sertis redimiti, unguentis obliti, debilitati stupris eructant sermonibus suis caedem bonorum..."