Etymograph

English

relactate

From re- + lactate.

Formed from re- + lactate

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Latin lac ‘milk’

Latin lactō ‘to suckle, give suck, contain milk’

Latin lactātus ‘suckled’

English lactate

Today it means

verb To resume lactating, after stopping for a period of weeks or longer.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “relactate”. 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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