re-

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-.

• IPA^(key): /ɹiː/

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• IPA^(key): /ɹɪ/

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• IPA^(key): /ɹə/

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re-

1. again, anew

   ‎re- + ‎new → ‎renew (“to make something new again”)

   ‎re- + ‎commit → ‎recommit (“to commit an act again”)

   ‎re- + ‎heat → ‎reheat (“to heat something that has cooled off”)

2. a completive or intensification of the base; up, a-, out

   reletter, relead, rebronze (examples from: ^[1])

3. back, backward

   reject, reply, resist

• The pronunciation varies depending on the word, with /ɹiː/, /ɹɪ/ (some pronunciations), /ɹɛ/ found in words like replay, resist and revolution, respectively.
• The hyphen is not normally included in words formed using this prefix, except when the absence of a hyphen would make the meaning unclear. Hyphens are used in the following cases:
  • Sometimes in new coinages and nonce words.

    stir and re-stir the mixture

  • When the word that the prefix is combined with begins with a capital letter.

    re-Christianise

  • When the word that the prefix is combined with begins with another re-.

    re-record

  • In British usage, when the word that the prefix is combined with begins with e.

    re-entry (North American: reentry)

  • When the word formed is identical in form to another word in which re- does not have any of the senses listed above.

    The chairs have been re-covered (covered again)

    The chairs have been recovered (obtained back)

• A dieresis may be used instead of a hyphen, as in reëntry. This usage is now rare, but extant; see diaeresis (diacritic) for examples and discussion.
• re- is highly productive, to the point of being almost grammaticalized — almost any verb can have re- applied, especially in colloquial speech. Notable exceptions to this include all forms of be and the modal verbs can, should, etc. When used productively, it is always pronounced /ɹiː/.

• (again): ana-, palin-
• (back): with-

• again
• re
• repeat

• “re-”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• 'er, -'er, -er, E-R, E. R., E.R., ER, er, er.

From Latin re-.

re-

1. re- (again)

   ‎re- + ‎fer (“to do”) → ‎refer (“to redo”)

2. intensifier for adjectives and adverbs

   Synonym: -íssim

   ‎re- + ‎vell (“old”) → ‎revell (“very old”)

3. great-, grand- (used to denote the removal of one generation)

   Synonym: bes-

   ‎re- + ‎nebot (“nephew”) → ‎renebot (“grandnephew”)

• “re-”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “re-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “re-” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “re-” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

re-

1. (inflected as a noun) with
2. (subject marker for tense modifying adverbs) they

From Latin re-. Doublet of her-.

re-

1. re-

From Latin re-.

• IPA^(key): /re/
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: re

re-

1. indicates repetition, again
2. indicates a return to previous state, back
3. indicates an action performed reciprocally, back (e.g., to hit back, to talk back)

From Latin re-.

re- (ORB, broad)

1. Attaches to verbs, often adding a sense of repetition or reversion.

From Latin re-.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə/

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re-

1. re-

   ‎re- + ‎marcher (“to function”) → ‎remarcher (“to function again”)

2. meaningless generic derivation prefix, especially as r-. From semantic bleaching of sense 1 followed by the unprefixed terms becoming obsolete or diverging in meaning.

This is only used when the stem starts with a consonant; otherwise, ré- or r- are used.

• r-

• IPA^(key): /ʁe/

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re-

1. re-

From Latin re- (“again; back”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛ]

re-

1. indicates repetition, again
2. indicates a return to previous state, back

From Latin re-.

re-

1. back, backwards
2. again; prefix added to various words to indicate an action being done again, or like the other usages indicated above under English.

Borrowed from Latin re-. The prefix re- is borrowed from Latin, while the variant ri- is inherited from Latin.^[1]

re-

1. re-

   Synonym: ri-

• The prefix re- normally replaces ri- before words beginning with i, for euphonic reasons.

From Proto-Italic *wre- (“again”), of uncertain origin (OED); see the Proto-Italic entry for more.^[1]

re-

1. back, backwards
2. un-, de-^[2]

   ‎re- + ‎glūtinō (“glue”) → ‎reglūtinō (“unglue, separate”)

   ‎re- + ‎neō (“spin, weave, entwine”) → ‎reneō (“unspin, unravel”)

   ‎re- + ‎gelō (“freeze, congeal”) → ‎regelō (“thaw, unfreeze”)

3. again; prefix added to various words to indicate an action being done again, or like the other usages indicated above under English.

The alternative form red- occurs before vowels or h in old formations; it is used with the linking vowel -i- in the word redivīvus. The -d- can be compared to that in sēditiō (compare sē- and sed) and in prōd-, antid-, postid- (alternative forms of prō-, ante-, post-). It may originate from the particle *de^[3] or from the use of -d as an archaic ablative singular ending. The use of the form re- before vowels, as in reaedifico, reinvito, is not seen until Late Latin.^[3] (See Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary, 1897, s.v. "re" and "D").

Before consonants, its usual form is rĕ- with short /e/, but the following consonant is sometimes doubled. In some cases, such as reccidī, the double consonant comes from syncope of an originally reduplicated syllable of the base word: compare the unprefixed form cecidī. In other cases, such as redducō, relligiō, relliquiae, the double consonant may have arisen from preconsonantal use of red-, with assimilation of -d- to the following consonant.

re-

1. re- (again; once more)

Inherited from Latin re-.

re-

• èr-

From Old French re-, from Latin re-.

re-

1. re-

From Latin re-.

re-

1. re-

• “re-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin re-.

re-

1. re-

• “re-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin re-.

re-

1. re-

re-

1. re- (again; once more)

Learned borrowing from Latin re-.

• IPA^(key): /rɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
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• Homophones: re, Re

re-

1. re- (again, anew)
2. re- (back, backward)

• re- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese re-, from Latin re-.

re-

1. re- (forms verbs indicating that the action is being done again)

   ‎re- + ‎fazer (“to do”) → ‎refazer (“to redo”)

Borrowed from Latin re-. The form ră- only appears in a few inherited words.

• IPA^(key): /re/

re-

1. re-

Learned borrowing from Latin re-.

re-

1. re- (again, anew)
2. re- (back, backward)

From Latin re-.

The use with adjectives is typical of Ibero-Romance. Compare Italian stra- (from Latin extra-), French très (from Latin trans-; now spelt separate, but formerly also a prefix).

re-

1. back, backwards

   ‎re- + ‎fluir → ‎refluir

   ‎re- + ‎pugnar → ‎repugnar

2. again

   ‎re- + ‎construir → ‎reconstruir

3. strongly, intensely

   ‎re- + ‎bramar → ‎rebramar

4. (now chiefly colloquial) forms absolute superlatives from adjectives

   Synonyms: muy, -ísimo

   ‎re- + ‎bueno (“good”) → ‎rebueno (“great”)

   ‎re- + ‎chulo (“cute”) → ‎rechulo (“very cute”)

• re, rete-, requete-, recontra-

• “re-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

re-

1. re-; doing something again

   Synonyms: åter-, om-

• -er, er, er-