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remissione, pop. rimessione, 
remontu£r, French, remontolr, 
removere, pop. rl-, 
remunerare, more com. ri-, 
renitente, legal, 
renunziare, usually ri-, 
repellere, lit. and sclent., 
repentaglio, ri- obsolete, 
replicare, cf. forms accented rfe-, 
replica, etc., ri- a peasant 
word, cf. ripiegare, different 
sense, 
repulsa, usually ri-, 
requisire, bureaucratic, illit. ri-, 
rescindere, more pop. risecare, 
resecare, and ri-, the former lit., 
the latter semi-pop., 
resdzione, surgical term, 
resolute, lit. for ri-, 
respingere, but ri- repeats spin- 
gere, 
respirare, ri- in the Montagna, 
restauro, cf. ristoro, 
restio, cf. resto, etc., and ri- 
obsolete, 
restituird, ri- obs., 
restringere, ri- repeats stringere, 
resultare, usually ri-, 
resupino, lit., but ri- obs., 
resurgere, lit., cf. risorgere, 
retrarre, lit. for ri-, 
retribuird, the old language has 
ri- and re-, 
retundere, rintuzzare is the pop. 
word, 
revisione, but ri- obs. 
Remark.— The following are notable exceptions to the 
above: re- is the popular form. Perhaps these forms are an 
attempt to imitate the learned. The words do not contain es¬ 
pecially popular ideas or the ideas are usually expressed by 
other words. 
recusare, illit. for ri-, 
recuperare, pop. for ri-, 
repetere, illit. for ri-, 
reprensione, pop. for ri-, 
repudiare, pop. for ri-, 
repugnanza, pop. for ri-, 
resuscitare, more pop. than ri- 
and is a peasant word and 
living in the Montagna, 
retentiva, illit. for ritenitiva. 
(b) In Old Italian. The following are a few of the many 
old words in re-; many of them were also used by Florentines, 
but apparently by learned or dialectic interference. 
rebutto (G. Giudicd di Messina, 
13th cent.), = “ributta- 
mento”, 
recagnare (Sannazaro),/ = “‘irin- 
cagnare”, 
recappare (Sacchetti), but rica- 
pare (Cavalcanti), 
recatto (G. Giudice et al.), for ri- 
catto, 
receperd (Jacopone), for ricevere, 
recevire (Ristoro d’Arezzo), for 
ricevere, 
recherere (Guittone), for richie- 
dere, 
recoldre (Sannazaro), 
redamare (Castiglione), but ri- 
(Jacopone), 
refuggio, (G. Villani), 
refutaggio (D. Compagni), for ri- 
fiuto, 
rdmirare (Boiardo), for ri- 
remuggire (Ariosto), for ri-, 
remuno (Sacchetti), for rimuner- 
azione, 
repatriare (Doc. Art. Sen.), for 
ri-, 
repennare (Guittone), for ri-, 
repensare (Boccaccio), for ri-, 
reporre (Bembo), for ri-, 
rdprobare (Jacopone), for ripro- 
vare. 
7. Examples of the development of RE- before vowels. 
