English
reauthenticate
Reauthenticate comes from English authenticate, and goes back to Medieval Latin authenticō.
- Medieval Latinmodernauthenticō
- English1500–presentauthenticate
- Englishearliest quotation 2015reauthenticate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Medieval Latinmodernauthenticō
- English1500–presentauthenticate
- Englishearliest quotation 2015reauthenticate
Earliest quotation: 2015, Jonathon Keats, ‘Master Thieves’ and ‘The Art of the Con’: “Later he would have the original reauthenticated and resell…”
A compound of re- + authenticate
Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’
English re-
Linked words
through English authenticate
Today it means
verb To authenticate again.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Medieval Latin authenticō / reauthenticate