rediscover

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English discover

English rediscover

From re- + discover.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌvə(ɹ)

Verb

rediscover (third-person singular simple present rediscovers, present participle rediscovering, simple past and past participle rediscovered)

1. (transitive) To discover again; especially something previously lost or forgotten.

   She rediscovered her faith in religion.

   • 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 March 2022:

     He does all sorts of cool shit, and he subtly rediscovers his own heroism without making a big thing out of it. But he’s a supporting character, and he knows it.

Derived terms

• rediscoverer
• rediscover fire

Translations

to discover again

• Catalan: redescobrir (ca)
• Danish: genopdage
• Dutch: herontdekken (nl)
• Esperanto: retrovi
• Finnish: löytää uudelleen
• French: redécouvrir (fr), retrouver (fr)
• Galician: redescubrir (gl)
• German: wiederentdecken (de), neu entdecken
• Irish: athaimsigh
• Italian: riscoprire (it)
• Polish: ponownie odkrywać impf, ponownie odkryć pf
• Portuguese: redescobrir (pt), reencontrar
• Slovak: znovuobjaviť, znovuobjavovať
• Spanish: redescubrir (es)

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