Reidentified

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Recognized or identified once more after an initial identification
2. Established the identity of something or someone again following a prior recognition
3. Confirmed the identity anew after it had been identified before

Etymology: "Reidentified" is "re-" ("again") added to "identified," the past participle of "identify," which comes from Late Latin "identificare," meaning "to make the same," from Latin "idem" ("the same") and "-ficare" ("to make"). The core idea is that identifying something means showing it is the same as something already known. The word is a plain English formation: the prefix "re-" attached to a past participle that already existed, so it needs no separate history of its own. Its sense follows directly from the parts, describing a second act of establishing that a person or thing is the one previously recognized.