English
repasteurize
From re- + pasteurize.
Formed from re- + pasteurize
Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to ward’
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Latin pāscō ‘to feed, maintain, pasture, graze’
Latin pastor ‘a person who tends sheep’
French Pasteur
French pasteuriser ‘to pasteurise’
English pasteurize
Today it means
verb To pasteurize again.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “repasteurize”. 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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