restitute

English

Etymology

From Old French restituer, from Latin restituō (“replace, restore”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛstɪtjuːt/, /ˈɹɛstɪtuːt/

Verb

restitute (third-person singular simple present restitutes, present participle restituting, simple past and past participle restituted)

1. (transitive) To restore (something) to its former condition.
2. (transitive) To provide recompense for (something).
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 17]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     […] when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths. […]

   • 1966, Anaïs Nin, Incest, published 1993, →ISBN, page 28:

     What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.

   • 1980, Harold Bloom, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, →ISBN, page 266:

     [W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.

3. (transitive) To refund.
   • 2004, Brian Haig, Private Sector, →ISBN, page 31:

     We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.

Related terms

• restitution

Translations

To restore or return to former condition

• Romanian: restitui (ro)
• Russian: восстана́вливать (ru) (vosstanávlivatʹ)

To refund

• Finnish: korvata (fi)

Noun

restitute (plural restitutes)

1. That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.

Latin

Participle

restitūte

1. vocative masculine singular of restitūtus