Revisit

How to spell revisit

7 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce revisit

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does revisit mean?

1. verbTo go to see a place or person again, or to consider a subject or decision once more.
2. nounA second or repeated visit to a place, or a fresh look at an issue.

Revisit in a sentence

• verb

  The committee agreed to revisit the budget after the holidays.

• noun

  A quick revisit to the gallery confirmed which painting she wanted.

• verb

  We plan to revisit the coastal town where we honeymooned.

• noun

  The report calls for a revisit of last year's safety rules.

Where does revisit come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This word is simply the everyday verb 'visit' with the prefix 're-' meaning 'again' attached to the front. The base 'visit' came into English in the 1200s through Old French 'visiter', which descended from the Latin 'visitare', meaning 'to go to see' or 'to go and inspect'. That Latin verb was a frequentative of 'visere', 'to view or behold', which itself traces back to 'videre', 'to see', the same root that gives us 'vision', 'video' and 'evident'. The prefixed form 'revisit' appears in English from the 1500s, first in the literal sense of going to a place a second time and later in the figurative sense of returning to a topic or decision. Because the spelling is just 're' bolted cleanly onto 'visit', there is no doubled letter to worry about, only the single 's' and single 't' that 'visit' already carries.

How the word is built

• re- (again)
• visit (from Latin visitare: to go to see)