Where does “represent” come from?
Represent comes from Old French représenter, from Latin repraesento, combining the prefix re- with praesens (present, being before), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root h₁ésmi meaning to be.
represent (English): To present again or anew; to present by means of...
Definitions
- To present again or anew; to present by means of...
Ancestry of “represent”, step by step
represent traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English present
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | present | Relating to now, for the time being; current;... |
| 2 | Middle English | present | — |
| 3 | Old French | present | gift; present; present |
| 4 | Latin | praesēns | present, immediate, at hand, existing |
| 5 | Latin | praeesse | present active infinitive of praesum; be in front... |
| 6 | Latin | praesum | I am before something; I preside or rule over; I... |
| 7 | Latin | prae- | before; in front; in charge |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | prai- | pre-, before |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | preh₂- | before, in front |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Old French représenter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | représenter | — |
| 2 | Latin | repraesento | I represent, depict; I display, exhibit or show |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |
Words derived from “represent”
- misrepresent
- representable
- unrepresentable
- representability
- representee
- representer
- representor
- underrepresent
- unrepresentability
- overrepresent
- representeth
- representment
- irrepresentable
- nonrepresentable
- misrepresenter
- metarepresent
- under-represent
- レペゼン
- representive
- rerepresent
- unrepresent
- representively
- irrepresentableness