re-

Meaning

1. (morpheme) again, anew
2. (morpheme) a completive or intensification of the base; up, a-, out
3. (morpheme) back, backward

Synonyms

again

🔁

in return

once more

freshly

more

neighbourhood

newly

proximity

re

repeated

twice

ayen

in response

ayein

agyen

againe

anew

counter

Translations

her-

weer-

🔁

re-

terug-

🔙

red-

noch einmal

re-

🔙

re-

re-

un altre cop

novament

🔁

abermals

erneut

frisch

كرة أخرى

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹiː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: re-

In summary

From Middle English re-, from Old French re-, from Latin re-, red- (“back; anew; again; against”), of uncertain origin but conjectured by Watkins to be from Proto-Indo-European *wret-, a metathetic alteration of *wert- (“to turn”). Displaced native English ed-, eft-, a-, with-/wither-, gain-/again-.