Instaurate

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To establish or set up something new, or to restore something that has been lost or abandoned
2. To found or institute anew, or to bring back into being something previously discontinued or destroyed
3. To create and set in place, or to reinstate and renew something that had ceased to exist

Etymology: Instaurate is a rare English verb meaning to renew or restore something, and it came into English in 1583 by way of Latin. The Latin "īnstaurāre" meant to renew, repeat, or restore, and English took it directly from the past participle "īnstaurātus," which is where the "-ate" ending comes from. The "-ate" suffix is the common Latin verb-forming ending that English has long used for borrowed verbs such as "create" and "dedicate." The verb sits in a small family of English words with the same Latin base. Its close relative in French, "instaurer," shows the same sense of setting something up again or re-establishing it, and it reached French from the same Latin source. The two languages took the root in parallel, so the English and French words are cognates rather than one borrowed from the other.

Synonyms: restore, renew, reinstate

Antonyms: destroy, demolish