repay

The story

1. Latin · derived frompācāre“to settle, to make peaceful”
2. Old French · derived fromrepaier“to pay back”
3. English todayrepay

From Old French repaier (“to pay back”), from re- + paiier (“to pay”), from Latin pācāre (“to settle, to make peaceful”), from pāx (“peace”) + -ō (forming verbs). Equivalent to re- + pay. Cognate with repacify and French repayer (“to pay again”).

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