English

repass

Repass comes from Anglo-Norman repasser.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam. […]: “the grate of brass Through which they thrust me,…”

Formed from re- + pass

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- ‘to spread, stretch out’

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Latin passus ‘a step’

Vulgar Latin *passō ‘to step, walk, pass’

Old French passer ‘to step, walk, pass’

Middle English passen ‘to pass’

English pass

Every English word from Anglo-Norman repasser

verb To pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.

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