Repaints

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The activity of adding layers of color to an existing paint job involves refreshing or changing the visual appearance of a surface
2. To coat a surface with paint once more to renew or alter its color or finish
3. The process of covering a previously painted area with a fresh layer of paint for restoration or change

Etymology: The verb "repaint" is simply "paint" with the prefix "re-", meaning "again," so "repaints" is the third-person singular form, describing someone who applies fresh paint over a surface that already has some. The prefix comes from Latin "re-", which English took in through Old French "re-" and Middle English "re-" (the same prefix that appears in "redo" or "rewrite"). The base word has a longer ancestry. Its distant source is Proto-Indo-European "*peyḱ-", a root meaning to decorate or adorn, which passed into Latin as "pingere," to paint or embroider. Latin "pictus," the past participle form, fed into Vulgar Latin "pinctus" and then Old French "peint." Middle English borrowed that French material as "peynten," which developed into the modern "paint." Both parts of the word are old, but the combination itself is a straightforward English formation: "re-" attached to a verb that had long been established in English.

Synonyms: redoes, recoats, touches up, redecors, refreshes