Where does “revisit” come from?
Revisit comes from Middle French revisiter, meaning to visit again.
revisit (English): To visit again; To reconsider or re-experience...
Definitions
- To visit again; To reconsider or re-experience...
Ancestry of “revisit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | revisite | — |
| 2 | Latin | revisitare | — |
| 3 | Latin | vīsitō | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ito | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or... |
| 5 | Latin | -tō | — |
| 6 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |