reperio

From re- +‎ pariō, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈpe.ri.oː/, [rɛˈpɛrioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈpe.ri.o/, [reˈpɛːrio]

reperiō (present infinitive reperīre, perfect active repperī, supine repertum); fourth conjugation

1. to find, find out, learn, realise, discover

   Synonyms: inveniō, nancīscor, offendō, expiscor

   • c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 4.4.9-10:

     Occasionem repperisti, verbero,
     ubi perconteris me, insidiis hostilibus

     You have found an opportunity, scoundrel, when you question me amid hostile ambush

• Note: Variant non-reduplicated perfect stem reper-.

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

• reperībilis (post-classical)
• repertiō
• repertor
  • repertōrium

• English: repertoire
• English: repertory
• Italian: reperire

• “reperio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “reperio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• reperio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “repertory”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.