Where does “repair” come from?
Repair comes from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparāre, composed of the prefix re- and the verb parāre meaning to prepare or make ready.
repair (English): To restore to good working order, fix, or improve...
Definitions
- To restore to good working order, fix, or improve...
Ancestry of “repair”, step by step
repair traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English repairen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | repairen | to return |
| 2 | Old French | repairier | to go home |
| 3 | Late Latin | repatriare | to return to one's country; return to one's... |
| 4 | Latin | patria | country; fatherland; home; nominative feminine... |
| 5 | Latin | patrius | father's, fatherly, paternal; hereditary;... |
| 6 | Latin | iūs | law, right |
| 7 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |