Etymograph

English

repave

From re- + pave.

A compound of re- + pave

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- ‘to strike, hit’

Latin paviō ‘to beat, strike, ram, tread down’

Vulgar Latin *pavāre ‘to beat down, to smash’

Old French paver ‘to pave, to cover’

English pave

Today it means

verb To pave over again.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “repave”. 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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