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Repeat

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to say or do something again
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Stage 1 of 3
repetere
Latin · ancient
"to seek again, to do again"
to seek again, to do again, from re- (again) and petere (to seek)
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Stage 2 of 3
repeter
Old French · medieval
"to say or do something again"
carried into French for saying or doing something again
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Stage 3 of 3
repeat
English · 1300s
"to say or do something again"
settled as the English word for saying or doing something again
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