Recommences

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To start again after stopping for a time
2. To resume or continue an activity following a break
3. To recommence means to initiate once more after an interruption

Etymology: "Recommences" is the third-person singular present of "recommence," which is "re-" plus "commence." The "re-" prefix means "again," so the verb literally means "to begin again." "Commence" itself entered English in the 14th century from Old French "comencier," which came from the Latin "cominitiare," meaning "to begin," a compound built from "com-" (together, intensive) and "initiare" (to begin, from "initium," beginning). The prefix "re-" has been attached to "commence" since the 17th century, with "recommence" recorded in English from roughly that period. Its meaning is transparent: the verb simply adds "again" to the sense of starting, so a stalled project that "recommences" has begun once more after an interruption.

Synonyms: resumes, restarts, begins again, reinitiates, continues

Antonyms: ceases, stops, discontinues, halts, terminates