French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French remetre, inherited from Latin remittō. By surface analysis, re- +‎ mettre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʁə.mɛtʁ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

Verb

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remettre

  1. to put back, replace
  2. to put (clothing etc.) back on
  3. to restart (machine etc.)
  4. to hand over, tender, hand in, deliver (to someone) [with à]
  5. to put off, postpone (until) [with à]
  6. to remember
  7. to add (more)
  8. to forgive, remit
  9. (euphemistic) to throw up
  10. (pronominal) to get over, to recover (from something) [with de]
    • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 4, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:
      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) to be out of the woods [with de]
  12. (pronominal) to take up again, start (to do something) again [with à]
    Il s'est remis à fumer.He's started smoking again.
    • 1943, Antoine Saint-Exupéry, chapter IV, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 20:
      C'est dur de se remettre au dessin, à mon âge, quand on n'a jamais fait d'autres tentatives que celle d'un boa fermé et celle d'un boa ouvert, à l'âge de six ans !
      It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six.
  13. (pronominal) to get back

Conjugation

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This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is remis, not *remettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with remi-, not *remetti-.

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Further reading

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Verb

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remettre

  1. (transitive) to put back