Etymology

rescore

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Today it means: To score again; to assign new marks to. Full definition →

English score ← Middle English score ← Old English scoru
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  7. Proto-Germanic*skurō
  8. Old Norseskor
  9. Old Englishscoru
  10. Middle Englishscore
  11. Englishscore
  12. English todayrescore

From re- + score.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.