repose

repose · verb, noun¹

1. French · borrowed fromrepos
2. Old French · derived fromrepos“calm; rest; period or state of sleep; state of immobility; state of inaction”
3. Middle French · derived fromrepos
4. Anglo-Norman · derived fromrepous
5. Middle English · inherited fromrepose
6. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*peh₂w-“few, little; smallness”
7. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαῦσῐς“ceasing, stopping”
8. Latin · derived fromrepausāre
9. Old French · derived fromreposer
10. Middle French · derived fromreposer
11. Anglo-Norman · derived fromreposer
12. Middle English · inherited fromreposen“to rest”
13. English todayrepose

The verb is derived from Middle English reposen (“to rest”), from Anglo-Norman reposer, reposir, and Middle French reposer, from Old French reposer, repauser (“to become calm; to be peaceful; to rest; to be immobile; to lie or be placed; to cease, stop; to neglect”) (modern French reposer), from Latin repausāre, the present active infinitive of repausō (“(Late Latin) to be at rest; to lie down, rest; to sleep; to calm, pacify; (Latin) to halt temporarily, pause”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + pausō (“to cease, halt; to pause”) (from pausa (“a halt, stop; a pause; an end”), from Ancient Greek παῦσῐς (paûsĭs, “ceasing, stopping”), from παύω (paúō, “to cease; to make to cease, stop; to bring to an end; to hinder”) (further etymology uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result)). The noun is derived from Late Middle English repose, from Anglo-Norman repous, repos, and Middle French repos, repose, from Old French repos (“calm; rest; period or state of sleep; state of immobility; state of inaction”) (modern French repos), from reposer, repauser (verb) (see above). Noun etymology 1, noun sense 12.3 (“technique of including in a painting an area or areas which are dark, indistinct, or soft in tone”) is borrowed from French repos. Cognates Catalan reposar (verb), repòs (noun) Italian riposare (verb), riposo (noun) Old Occitan repausar, repauzar (verb), repaus (noun) Portuguese repousar (verb), repouso (noun) Spanish reposar (verb), reposo (noun)

repose · verb²

1. Latin · derived frompausāre
2. Vulgar Latin · derived frompausāre
3. Old French · derived fromposer“to place, put”
4. Latin · derived fromrepōnō“to put back; to restore; to store”
5. Middle English · inherited fromreposen“to put (something) back, replace”
6. English todayrepose

From Middle English reposen (“to put (something) back, replace”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + posen (“to place (something)”), modelled after Latin repōnō (“to put back; to restore; to store”). Posen is derived from Old French poser (“to place, put”) (modern French poser), from Vulgar Latin pausāre, from Latin pausāre, the present active infinitive of pausō (see further at etymology 1), influenced by pōnere, the present active infinitive of pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).

repose · verb³

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

From re- + pose.

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