re-
English
/ɹiː/
prefix
Definitions
- again, anew
- a completive or intensification of the base; up, a-, out
- back, backward
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English re- derived from Old French re- (prefix meaning again, once more) derived from Latin re- (again, back, backwards, re-, prefix meaning back, back-) derived from Proto-Indo-European *wret-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wret-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- drape English
- redrape English
- revigorate English
- *recaptāre Latin
- *reiterāre Latin
- *repoenitere Latin
- *resaliō Latin
- lūstrum Latin
- re- Latin
- recompenso, recompensare Latin
- remōnstrō Latin
- repaenitēre Latin
- resipisco Latin
- retornare Latin
- truncāre Latin
- re- Hungarian
- ra- Italian
- re- Italian
- ri- Italian
- re- French
- refrain French
- renier French
- retroussé French
- ré- French
- révérer French
- re- Spanish, Castilian
- recomendar Spanish, Castilian
- reconstruir Spanish, Castilian
- repujar Spanish, Castilian
- *wer- Proto-Indo-European
- *wret- Proto-Indo-European
- re- Norwegian Bokmål
- recomendar Portuguese
- re- Polish
- re- Norwegian Nynorsk
- rabet Middle English
- re- Middle English
- raboter Old French
- re- Old French
- recommender Old French
- redrecier Old French
- refraindre Old French
- res- Old French
- re- Esperanto
- re- Catalan, Valencian
- recomendar Galician
- refollo Galician
- relustro Galician
- răs- Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ri- Ido
- r'- Norman
- re- Norman
- retrenchement Middle French
- ar Old Portuguese
- re- Old Portuguese
- recear Old Portuguese
- remedar Old Portuguese
- re- Occitan
- *wre Proto-Italic
- relentir xno
- reaktsiya Crimean Tatar
- reanimatsiya Crimean Tatar
- rekonstruktsiya Crimean Tatar
- repatriatsiya Crimean Tatar
- reproduktor Crimean Tatar
- racumandà Istriot
- re- Interlingua