repair

Meanings

Verb

• To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
• To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
• To transfer oneself to another place.
• to pair again

Noun

• The act of repairing something.
• The result of repairing something.
• The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
• The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
• A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

Origin

• Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō ("renew, repair").
• From Middle English repairen ("to return"), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare ("to return to one's country"), from re- + patria. Cognate to repatriate.
• From re- + pair.