restitution

C2+ Topic:Health & Medicine

US /ˌrɛstɪˈtuʃən/ UK /ˌrɛstɪˈtjuːʃən/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
the restoration of something lost or the compensation for injury or loss

The court ordered full restitution to the defrauded investors.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the restoration of... compensation reparation redress restoration recompense amends indemnification

Opposites

confiscation deprivation

Word family

Related forms restore constitute institute statute

Simplified etymology

Restitution entered English in the Middle English period through the Latin word family of statuere “set up, place.” Its original underlying sense was a re-establishing or restoration.

Etymology

From Old French restitution, from Latin restitutio ('a restoring'), from restituere ('to set up again, restore'), from re- ('again') + statuere ('to set up'), from status ('position').

restituere Latin statuere Latin *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European

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Topics

Health & Medicine Word Formation & Derivatives

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# restitution

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˌrɛstɪˈtuʃən/
**IPA (UK):** /ˌrɛstɪˈtjuːʃən/

## Meanings
1. the restoration of something lost or the compensation for injury or loss

## Examples
- The court ordered full restitution to the defrauded investors.

## Synonyms
- compensation
- reparation
- redress
- restoration
- recompense
- amends
- indemnification

## Antonyms
- confiscation
- deprivation

## Related Forms
- restore
- constitute
- institute
- statute

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: restituere
- Root: statuere
- Root: *steh₂-

## Etymology
From Old French restitution, from Latin restitutio ('a restoring'), from restituere ('to set up again, restore'), from re- ('again') + statuere ('to set up'), from status ('position').

## AI Etymology
Restitution comes from Old French restitution, from Latin restitutio ('a restoring'), from restituere ('to set up again, restore'), from re- ('again') + statuere ('to set up'), from status ('position'). The historical chain includes Latin restituere, Latin statuere, and Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. The quoted older senses, "a restoring", "to set up again, restore", "again", "to set up", and "position", supply the semantic anchors for restitution. The formation is best read as compound and borrowed: the word restitution carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "the restoration of something lost or the compensation for injury or loss". Related English forms include restore, constitute, institute, and statute. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Health & Medicine
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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