Schlatter—The Development of the Vowel. 
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6. Exceptions to §5*: 
(a) In modern Italian. These are practically all literary 
words: some express ideas not known to the popular language, 
others have more popular forms or did have them in the old 
language. 
reboantd, 
recalcitrare, more usually rl-, 
recapitare, more common than ri- 
(still ri- seems the pop. form), 
recapitolazione, more usually ri-, 
recedere, lit., hut ri- repeats ce- 
dere, 
recensione, 
recentd, but Andrea Lancia ri-, 
recesso, lit., but ri- in Egnazio 
Danti, 
recidere, ri- lllit. and ricidenda 
in Cellini. 
recidivivo, leg. and lit, cf. rica- 
dere, 
recingere, lit. for ri-, 
recipiente, ri- a peasant word, 
reciproco, 
reclamare, French? cf. riohia- 
mare, 
recluso, cf. richiudere, 
recognizione, or ri-, 
recondito, ri-, obsolete, 
recrementizio, med. term, 
recriminare, legal, 
recrudescenza, med., 
recubare, 
redargulre, but ri- in Ariosto, 
redattore, 
redenzione, 
redibizione, legal, 
redigere, 
redimere, riscattare is the pop. 
word, 
redire, poetic, cf. also forms ac¬ 
cented riede, etc., 
referire, pop. ri-, 
refezione, uncommon or jocular, 
reflesso, more pop. ri-, 
reflusso, illiterate rl-, 
refocillare, more com. ri-, 
refrazione, more com. ri-, 
refrenare, usually raffrenare, 
ref rescare, usually rinf rescare, 
refugiare, pop. ri-, 
regredire, literary, 
reietto, lit. for rigettato, 
relative, 
relegare, “to relegate” illit. ri-, 
religare, usually ri-, 
religione, but ri- frequent in Old 
Italian, ri- in Old Sienese and 
rilesgione in Guittone, 
reluttante, lit., more com. ri-, 
re'mancipazione, 
reminiscenza, not pop., 
§6. Note 1. The number of learned words in modern Italian show¬ 
ing re- is very large; the list contains only a few typical examples. 
The greater part of the remarks after the exceptions are Petrocchi’s 
and they purpose to show that ri- is distinctly the phonetic develop¬ 
ment for Florence. For example, when ridarguire is mentioned as 
found in Ariosto, my implication is this: redarguire is decidedly a 
learned word, but even so a form with the regular development to 
ri- is found—for instance,' in Ariosto—doubtless, investigation would 
Bhow ri- in this word in other writers, by whom this rare and literary 
word has been used. Again, ref rescare is purely literary and inas¬ 
much as it expresses a more or less popular idea it has a popular form, 
rinfrescare. The same kind of implication holds for the exceptions 
under (b): the forms in re- are found scattered side by side with the 
forms in ri-; for example, we are likely to find ri- even in Jacopone 
da Todi and re- even in Dino Compagni; but this is exceptional. 
When Jacopone used ri-, it was pure Florentine; he regularly used re-, 
which was the regular form for his dialect as well as the Latin and 
literary form. Similarly, when Compagni uses re-, it is decidedly an 
exception and not a Florentine form, developed phonetically. 
