Rerolled

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Cast once more, as dice or a random generator, to obtain a fresh result in place of an earlier one
2. Thrown or drawn again, typically in a game, so that a new outcome replaces the previous unsatisfactory one
3. Produced anew by another random roll, discarding the earlier result in favor of a different outcome

Etymology: "Rerolled" is the past tense of "reroll," which is simply "re-" attached to "roll." The "re-" prefix comes from Latin, where it meant "again" or "back," and it reached English through Old French. The "roll" half traces a longer path: it descends from Latin "rota," meaning "wheel," which gave rise to the Latin diminutive "rotulus," a small wheel or scroll. Old French turned that into "roele," and Middle English borrowed it as "rollen," meaning to turn or wind round, as a wheel does. That wheel-and-scroll sense is the key to the dice meaning. A rolling object goes over and over, so casting dice, which tumble across a surface, came to be called rolling them. Gamblers then coined the verb "reroll" for throwing the dice again, typically after a disputed or unlucky throw. Because the word is built transparently from two ordinary parts, it needed no special invention; it was simply the natural way to say "roll again."

Synonyms: rethrow, recast