Etymograph

English

re-defect

From re- + defect.

Formed from re- + defect

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

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Proto-Italic *fakjō ‘to make’

Latin facio ‘to make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect’

Latin dēficiō ‘to be exhausted, run out, fail, run out, be…’

Latin dēfectus ‘a failure, lack’

English defect

Today it means

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Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “re-defect”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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