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Latin
Etymology
From metanalysis of re- in verbs like reddō < *re-di-dō, parallel and analogical to prō-/prōd-.
Prefix
red-
- Primarily ante-vocalic or poetic variant of re-
Derived terms
References
- “re”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- re in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “re-, red-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 516