Etymology

remand

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Today it means: The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial. Full definition →

Middle English remaunden ← Middle French remander ← Late Latin remandare
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromremandare“to order”
  2. Late Latin · derived fromremandare“to send backward”
  3. Middle French · derived fromremander“to send back”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromremaunden“to send back”
  5. English todayremand

From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”). Compare countermand.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.