Etymograph

English

revince

Revince comes from Latin revincō ‘to conquer, subdue’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *weyk- ‘to overcome’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyk-1‘to overcome’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*winékti ~ *winkénti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*winkō1‘to conquer, overcome’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvincō2‘to conquer, to defeat, to vanquish’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErevincō3‘to conquer, subdue’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1563revince3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin vinco
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin revinco
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English revince
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1563, John Foxe: “testimonies of Scripture revinced”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyk-Wiktionary, Latin vinco‘to overcome’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*winékti ~ *winkéntiWiktionary, Latin vincoreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*winkōWiktionary, Latin vinco‘to conquer, overcome’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvincōWiktionary, Latin revinco‘to conquer, to defeat, to vanquish’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErevincōWiktionary, English revince‘to conquer, subdue’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1563revinceWiktionary, English revince. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1563, John Foxe: “testimonies of Scripture revinced”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *weyk- ‘to overcome’

victim, weakness, icon, witch, wicked, victor, province, wo, wight, weakly, vicar, wile, waw, ancona, 31 more

through Latin vincō ‘to conquer, to defeat, to vanquish’

victory, conviction, convince, victorious, convict, eviction, invincible, vanquish, evict, 8 more

Today it means

verb To overcome.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “revince”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin vinco, Latin revinco. 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.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weyk- / revince

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