remettre

Etymology

From Old French remetre, inherited from Latin remittō. Synchronically analysable as re- +‎ mettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.mɛtʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

Verb

remettre

1. to put back, replace
2. to put (clothing etc.) back on
3. to restart (machine etc.)
4. (followed by the preposition à) to hand over, tender, hand in, deliver (to someone)
5. (followed by the preposition à) to put off, postpone (until)
6. to remember
7. to add (more)
8. to forgive, remit
9. (euphemistic) to throw up
10. (takes a reflexive pronoun, followed by the preposition de) to get over, to recover (from something)
    • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.iv:

      Quant à l'évêque, avoir vu la guillotine fut pour lui un choc, et il fut longtemps à s’en remettre.

      As for the bishop, seeing the guillotine had been a shock for him, and it took him a long time to get over it.

11. (in the passive voice, followed by the preposition de) to be out of the woods
12. (takes a reflexive pronoun, followed by the preposition à) to take up again, start (to do something) again

    Il s'est remis à fumer. ― He's started smoking again.

13. (takes a reflexive pronoun) To get back

Further reading

• “remettre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Alternative forms

• remectre
• remestre
• remetre

Etymology

Old French remetre, equivalent to re- + mettre (“to put”).

Verb

remettre

1. (transitive) to put back