Etymology

rescan

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Today it means: To scan again. Full definition →

English scan ← Middle English scanne ← Latin scandō
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*skend-
  7. Proto-Italic*skandō
  8. Latinscandō
  9. Middle Englishscanden
  10. Middle Englishscanne
  11. Englishscan
  12. English todayrescan

From re- + scan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.