red-

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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-

  1. 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