remand

/ɹɪˈmænd/rih-MAND

/ɹɪˈmænd/rih-MAND

Meaningsend word back

Common meaning: send a person back into custody or to a court

reback, againSkeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), p. 441 · scan
mandto entrust, orderLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1106 · scan

‘back, again’ + ‘to entrust, order’ → remand

Journey through time

re — Latin re- “back, again” (path traced)
mand — Latin mandō, mandāvī “to entrust, order” (path traced)

Parts join in Latin as remandare.

Latinre- + mandare‘back, again + to entrust, order’source
Latinremandare‘send word back’source
Frenchremandersource
Englishremand‘send a person back into custody or to a court’ · today

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

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Origin: Built on Latin remandare, which Skeat (Concise Dictionary, 1911) analyses as re- ‘back, again’ + mandare ‘to entrust, order’.

Roots

mandō, mandāvī Latin “to entrust, order”
remandare Latin “send word back”

Related words

command commend demand mandate recommend

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