English

replate

From re- + plate.

A compound of re- + plate

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- ‘flat’

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Vulgar Latin *plattus ‘flat’

Medieval Latin plata

Old French plate ‘a flat metal disk’

Middle English plate

English plate

Today it means

verb To plate again.

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