Etymograph

English

reimage

From re- + image.

A compound of re- + image

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-

Latin imāgō ‘a copy’

Old French image ‘sight’

Middle English ymage

English image

Today it means

verb To completely replace the operating system (on a particular computer) with a preconfigured image, typically as a drastic means of fixing problems.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / reimage