Where does “redesign” come from?
Redesign comes from English design, derived from Latin designo (to mark out), from the Latin prefix de- combined with a root from Proto-Indo-European wer- (to turn or bend).
redesign (English): A plan for making changes to the structure and...
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- A plan for making changes to the structure and...
Ancestry of “redesign”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | design | A specification of an object or process,... |
| 2 | Middle English | designen | — |
| 3 | Old French | designer | — |
| 4 | Latin | dēsignō | — |
| 5 | Latin | dē- | — |
| 6 | Latin | dē | — |
| 7 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 8 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | posti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |
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