Reforged

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have experienced a transformation into an altered product through the act of forging anew, suggesting a significant change in form or essence
2. Remade by heating and hammering metal into a new shape
3. Formed again by reshaping metal through heating and hammering

Etymology: "Reforged" is the past tense and past participle of "reforge," so it is the form of the verb, and the verb itself is simple: the prefix re- added to forge, meaning to shape metal by heating and hammering it. To reforge something is to heat it again and beat it into a new shape, the way a broken blade might be remade rather than thrown away. The prefix has a long road into English. The Latin "re-" meant "back" or "again," and it reached English through Old French "re-," which was itself taken from that Latin source. English then attached it to "forge," which came into the language from Old French "forger," with the sense of working metal at a hearth, and the combined verb carries both the repetition of "re-" and the metalworking of "forge."