re-
Meaning
- again, anew
- a completive or intensification of the base; up, a-, out
- back, backward
Synonyms
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɹiː/
Etymology
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-.
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