different between repetition vs ingeminate

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??t???n/

Noun

repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)

1. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

2. (weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.

   Synonym: rep

Synonyms

• (act of repeating): See Thesaurus:repetition
• (instance of repeating): recurrence, reiteration; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence

Related terms

• repetitious

Translations

See also

• have seen this movie

Etymology 2

re- +? petition

Alternative forms

• re-petition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?p??t???n/

Verb

repetition (third-person singular simple present repetitions, present participle repetitioning, simple past and past participle repetitioned)

1. To petition again.
   • 2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)

     The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.

Anagrams

• petitioner

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin repet?ti?.

Noun

repetition c

1. repetition; the act of repeating
2. rehearsal

Declension

Derived terms

• generalrepetition

Related terms

• repetera

Further reading

• repetition in Svensk ordbok.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingemin? (“repeat, reiterate”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /?n?d??m.?.ne?t/
• (adjective) IPA^(key): /?n?d??m.?.n?t/

Verb

ingeminate (third-person singular simple present ingeminates, present participle ingeminating, simple past and past participle ingeminated)

1. (transitive) To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, II:

     we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat […]

Translations

Related terms

• ingemination

Adjective

ingeminate (comparative more ingeminate, superlative most ingeminate)

1. redoubled
   • 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old

     It is an ingeminate expression of our labours . And that supposes us to have faculties capable of improvement

2. reiterated

Anagrams

• matineeing

Latin

Participle

ingemin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ingemin?tus