REPAIR Copy link • REPAIR 1. s. refectio. To need repair, refectionem desiderare: to keep in repair, tueri (tecta, or sarta tecta aedium; vias): in good repair, sartus tectus: to keep a house in repair, sarta tecta aedium tueri; domum sartam ac tectam. conservare. To examine whether a house be in good repair, exigere sarta tecta aedium. 2. v. Transitively, To mend, reficere: renovare (to restore to its former state; ☞ avoid reparare in this sense): in melius restituere (to put in a better state, to improve): sarcire, resarcire, recoucinnare (e.g., clothes, a house; Vid: Cic., Qu. Fr., 2, 6, 3, tribus locis aedifico, reliqua reconcinno, I am having them repaired: emendare is = to correct, improve anything written, and retractare, to look through again and correct). To supply, make good (a loss), explere: supplere (to supply, fill up): pensare: compensare; by anything, aliquid aliqua re or cum re (to make equal, balance): sarcire, resarcire (Suet., Plin.): reconcinnare, reficere, reparare, restituere (to restore): to repair a loss, damnum explere, pensare, compensare, sarcire, restituere; detrimentum sarcire, reconcinnare; quod amisi, reparo; quae amissa sunt, reficere. Intransitively, To betake one’s self, resort to a place, se conferre aliquo: petere, capessere locum (to make a place the end of one’s journey): cencedere aliquo (to return to a place): ire, proficisci aliquo (to travel to a place): to repair to anybody, se conferre, accedere ad aliquem; adire, convenire aliquem (especially in order to speck with him): to repair in great numbers to a place, in locum confluere; frequently, frequentare locum. He repaired to Argos (in order to dwell there), Argos habitatum concessit: to repair to the interior of the kingdom, petere interiora regni: to repair to a monastery, *capessere monasterium; *capessere vitam monachorum: to repair to a place of safety, in tutum cedere or se recipere; in portum se conferre.