repeat English · revision 4900

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1375|origins=la repetere}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /rɪˈpiːt/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|repeten]], [[bor|fro|repeter|t=to say or do again, get back]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) and directly from [[la|repetere|t=to do or say again; to attack again]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) formed from [[re-]] “again” and petere “to go towards, seek, attack”,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[ine-pro|*pet-|t=to rush, to fly]].^(Etymonline) It is related to [[compete]], [[petition]] and [[feather]].^(Cresswell 2021)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) The spelling with ea appeared in the late 16th century.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To return, turn again: before 1382 in Barnhart, in the Wycliffe Bible.^(Barnhart 1988) To say again what one has said: about 1375 in the OED, the late 14th century in Etymonline.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ To say over something learned, to recite, is from 1559,^(OED 1989) and to say again what another has said from the 1590s.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) To do something again is from the 1550s (1560 in Barnhart).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) ''Repeat'' as an emphatic word on the radio is by 1938,^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) and to take a school course again by 1945, in American English.^(Etymonline) In American elections a ''repeater'' voted more than once.^(AHD) The noun first meant repeated words or a refrain (about 1450),^(Barnhart 1988) and then a passage played twice in music (1663);^(OED 1989) a repeated broadcast is from 1937.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1382 – to return.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1375 – to say again.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1450 – noun, a refrain.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1550s – to do again.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1663 – a repeated passage in music.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1937 – a repeated broadcast.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1938 – as an emphatic word on the radio.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To say or write something again.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To say what someone else has said, or tell others something you were told.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To do or experience something again.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To [[recite]] from memory.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # An event or [[performance]] that happens again.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A television or radio programme that is broadcast again.^(Collins 2023)^(OED 1989)

+ # ''(music)'' A passage to be played again, or the sign for it.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repeatability]]

+ * [[repeatable]]

+ * [[four-peat]]

+ * [[nonrepeat]]

+ * [[repeater]]

+ * [[three-peat]]

+ * [[repeatedly]]

+ * [[tandem repeat]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[repetition]]

+ * [[repetitious]]

+ * [[repetitive]]

+ * [[repeated]]

+ * [[repeating]]

+ * [[compete]]

+ * [[petition]]

+ * [[appetite]]

+ * [[feather]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}