Cicero's Redamancy

The word that’s been recurring in my prefrontal cortex since yesterday is redamancy. So I decide to get rid of it; drag and drop it to the Hippocampus. At least put a pin on it and see if it stays.

Redamancy is a latin word, one of many beautiful words we owe to Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), a Roman politician and lawyer. I think these are the two professions that indisputably carry the gift of gab, and are licensed to contort and chisel language as they choose to. So Cicero by sheer virtue of his talent augmented by his profession evolved in to one of the greatest orators of first century B.C. Rome. 

Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), Roman rhetorician, asserted that Cicero was 'not the name of a man, but of eloquence itself'. and here in lies the origin of two more words that can 'indirectly' be attributed to Cicero: 

Ciceronian: eloquence &

Cicerone: local guide

Coming back to redamancy or "the act of loving in return", originates from classic latin word "redamo" meaning "I requite love"

The root word is "red" (pun unintended). 'Red' here means 'response'; an archaic form of "re", which preceded a vowel (the word for which btw is PREVOCALIC); indicates 'response'  in contemporary English.

so red becomes the root word of many such words as:

Redact: To censor, or to black out or remove parts of a document; edit

Redigere/ Redigo: to lead back, to reduce to a certian state (red: back + agere: to put in motion)

Redivivus: to revive or to bring back to life (my personal favourite after redamancy)

Redintegro: to restore or to renew

Redeem: From Redimo meaning buy back, and also rescue

Ending with a beautiful thought by Cicero:

Love (amor) from which the word 'friendship' (amicitia) is derived, not the other way around.

Point to ponder

Bbye, or as it's said in Latin ........ Vale