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

  1. To visit again; To reconsider or re-experience...

Ancestry of “revisit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishrevisite—
2Latinrevisitare—
3Latinvīsitōto see
4Latin-itoForms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...
5Latin-tōForms here
6Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
7Proto-Italic-tus—
8Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
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