Repaid
verbPaid back money that was borrowed or owed, or returned a favour or kindness.
How to spell repaid
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce repaid
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does repaid mean?
- verbPaid back money that was borrowed or owed, or returned a favour or kindness.
Repaid in a sentence
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She repaid the loan in full three months early.
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He repaid his brother the fifty pounds he had borrowed.
Where does repaid come from?
Language of origin: French
This is the past tense and past participle of 'repay', built from the prefix re-, meaning 'back' or 'again', joined to 'pay'. The verb 'pay' came into English through Old French 'paier', which descended from the Latin 'pacare', meaning 'to pacify' or 'to satisfy'; that in turn grew from 'pax', the Latin word for 'peace'. The original idea was that handing over money 'pacified' or settled a creditor, bringing peace to a debt. Like 'pay' itself, 'repay' keeps the irregular past form 'paid' rather than the regular 'payed', and this is exactly the spelling trap: writers who add a regular -ed produce the wrong 'repayed'. The single -aid spelling has been standard since the verb 'pay' settled into English in the medieval period.
How the word is built
- re- (back, again)
- paid (irregular past form of pay)
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