redeem
/ɹɪˈdim/rih-DEEM
/ɹɪˈdim/rih-DEEM
Meaningto buy back
Common meaning: to buy back
Other meanings: to make up for
- redLatin red- (re- before a vowel): back
- eemto take; to buyLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 643 · scan
‘back’ + ‘to take’ → redeem
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√AM‘take’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 15, p. 731 · scan
- Latinemō, ēmī, ēmptum‘to take’
- Frenchredimer
- Englishredeem‘to buy back’ · today
red- also in: redemptionrender
eem also in: exemptpromptpremiumperemptoryredemption
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin emō ‘to take; to buy’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry emō, p. 643 · dictionary scan
Roots
- emō, ēmī, ēmptum Latin “to take; to buy”
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