Etymology

reelection

R1E1E1L1E1C3T1I1O1N1

Today it means: Act of electing to office one previously elected to and serving in office. Full definition →

English election ← Middle English re- ← Old French re-
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishelection
  7. English todayreelection

From re- + election.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.