Word part · Latin prefix
The Latin prefix re-
Means: again, or back.
At a glance
- Part
- re-
- Meaning
- again, or back
- Layer
- Latin: Prefixes, suffixes and roots behind many school and book words.
A Latin prefix, taught early because it joins so many everyday words. In some words it means back instead of again: reverse, remove.
Example words
Read each word, then its sum: the parts that build it, and what they mean together.
Colors:prefixroot or basesuffix
- re (prefix)+tell (root or base)→retell
tell again
- re (prefix)+read (root or base)→reread
read again
- re (prefix)+fill (root or base)→refill
fill again
- re (prefix)+build (root or base)→rebuild
build again
- re (prefix)+paint (root or base)→repaint
paint again
- re (prefix)+heat (root or base)→reheat
heat again
- re (prefix)+use (root or base)+able (suffix)→reusable
can be used again
re + use + able: drop the e → reusable
- re (prefix)+port (root or base)+er (suffix)→reporter
a person who carries news back to us
- re (prefix)+spect (root or base)+ful (suffix)→respectful
full of respect
- re (prefix)+con (prefix)+struct (root or base)→reconstruct
build again
- re (prefix)+ject (root or base)→reject
throw back; refuse to take
- re (prefix)+verse (root or base)→reverse
turn back the other way
Original word lists and meanings written by Literacy Trail.
Taught alongside
Parts that share a lesson with re-.
- -tionthe act of, or the result of
- in-in, or into
- ex-out
- -ablecan be, or able to be
- -ora person or thing that does something
- con-with, or together
- pro-forward, or for
- un-not, or the opposite of
- -era person or thing that does something
- dis-not, the opposite of, or apart
- -ivetending to, or having the quality of
- inter-between, or among
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