Etymology

reoccupy

R1E1O1C3C3U1P3Y4

Today it means: To occupy again. Full definition →

English occupy ← 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. Englishoccupy
  7. English todayreoccupy

From re- + occupy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.