Reoccur

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Take place or happen again after an interval
2. Occur repeatedly or return after a period of absence
3. Appear or happen once more following a previous occurrence

Etymology: "Reoccur" is a straightforward compound: the prefix "re-", meaning "again," attached to "occur." The "occur" half came into English from Old French, which took it from the Latin "occurrere," literally "to run toward" or "to meet," built from "ob-" ("toward, against") and "currere" ("to run"). So the original picture is of something running into your path, and only later did "occur" come to mean something turning up or taking place. The prefix "re-" comes straight from Latin, where it carried the same sense of repetition or return that it carries in English today. Its ancestry runs back to the reconstructed Proto-Italic "wre-," which is why the prefix is so widespread in Romance and English vocabulary alike. Attaching "re-" to "occur" yields the sense of an event that happens once more after a gap.

Synonyms: repeat, happen again, reappear, resurface, recur

Antonyms: cease, stop, terminate, discontinue, end