Comment by JoeAltmaier
Comment by JoeAltmaier 10 months ago
Curiously the root of that word is 'to search again', meaning more like 'reviewing sources in the library' and less like 'doing experiments in the lab'.
Comment by JoeAltmaier 10 months ago
Curiously the root of that word is 'to search again', meaning more like 'reviewing sources in the library' and less like 'doing experiments in the lab'.
re- in this case is probably an intensive prefix rather than indicating repetition. this is an uncommon re- in english, but does occur, for example in 'refried beans', a calque from spanish where intensive re- is still a productive prefix
so it probably means 'search really hard' rather than 'search again'