reply

Meaning

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
re‧ply
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɹɪˈplaɪ/
Etymology

From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“I fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“I fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica.

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