reappear

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English appear

English reappear

From re- + appear.

Verb

reappear (third-person singular simple present reappears, present participle reappearing, simple past and past participle reappeared)

1. To appear again.
   • a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To ——”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 205:

     After the slumber of the year / The woodland violets re-appear, / All things revive in field or grove, […]

   • 1983, Men At Work, “Overkill”, in Cargo:

     Day after day it reappears / Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear / Ghosts appear and fade away

Derived terms

• reappearance
• reappearer

Translations

to appear again

• Bulgarian: появявам се отново (pojavjavam se otnovo)
• Catalan: reaparèixer (ca)
• Esperanto: reaperi
• French: reparaître (fr), réapparaître (fr)
• Hungarian: előkerül (hu), újra megjelenik
• Ido: riaparar (io)
• Latin: revideor
• Spanish: reaparecer (es), remanecer (es)
• Walloon: raparexhe (wa)

Anagrams

• rapparee, Parepare, appearer, præpare