Reappear

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To become visible or present once more following a period of absence
2. To show up again after having been gone or hidden
3. To come back into view or existence after disappearing for some time

Etymology: "Reappear" is a plain compound: the prefix "re-", meaning "again" or "back", joined to "appear". "Appear" itself came into English through Old French from Latin "apparere", meaning "to come into view", built from "ad-" ("to") and "parere" ("to come forth" or "show oneself"). So the word literally means "to come into view once more," with nothing more elaborate hidden in its making. The prefix "re-" has a longer lineage than the verb it attaches to. It traces back through Latin, where it had the same sense of repetition or return, and ultimately to a Proto-Italic root, the ancestor of the Latin language's own vocabulary. It was productive in English from the Middle English period onward, which is why English speakers can attach it to almost any verb of motion or visibility without thinking twice.

Synonyms: return, recur, resurface, reemerge, come back

Antonyms: disappear, vanish, depart, fade away, cease