remettre
French
verb
Definitions
- to put back, replace
- to put (clothing etc.) back on
- to restart (machine etc.)
- (followed by the preposition à) to hand over, tender, hand in, deliver (to someone)
- (followed by the preposition à) to put off, postpone (until)
- to remember
- to add (more)
- to forgive, remit
- (euphemistic) to throw up
- (pronominal) to get over, to recover (from something)
- (in the passive voice) to be out of the woods
- (pronominal) to take up again, start (to do something) again
- (pronominal) To get back
Etymology
Inherited from Old French remetre inherited from Latin remittō affix from French mettre (put, put on).
Origin
French
mettre
Gloss
put, put on
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- remittō Latin
- démettre French
- entremettre French
- mettable French
- metteur French
- metteuse French
- mettre French
- remetre Old French
- meti Esperanto
- remetre Catalan, Valencian
- mettre Middle French
- remettre Middle French
- mete Haitian, Haitian Creole
- mete Mauritian Creole
- mette Louisiana Creole French
- metté Louisiana Creole French