Refounden

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Re-established an institution, organization or settlement after it had been dissolved, destroyed or abandoned
2. Set up anew something that had once been founded but later ceased to exist in its original form
3. Having been started over again, as a community, company or institution rebuilt on a new basis

Etymology: "Refounden" is an archaic past participle of "refound," meaning to establish again or to set up on a new basis. Its parts are the prefix "re-," meaning "again," and "found," the verb meaning to establish or lay a foundation. That "found" comes through Old French "fonder" from Latin "fundare," "to lay a base," from "fundus," "bottom" or "base." English has a second verb "found" that looks identical but comes from a different Latin source, "fundere," "to pour." That verb meant to melt and cast metal, as in founding a bell or a cannon, and it reached English through Old French "fondre." The two verbs share a Latin ancestor but developed separate senses, so the participle here belongs to the building-and-establishing sense rather than the casting one.