re-commence

verb (used without object), verb (used with object), com·menced, com·menc·ing.

to begin; start.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English commencen < Anglo-French, Middle French comencer < Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, equivalent to Latin com- com- + initiāre to begin; see initiate

Related forms

com·mence·a·ble, adjective

com·menc·er, noun

re·com·mence, verb, re·com·menced, re·com·menc·ing.

un·com·menced, adjective

well-com·menced, adjective

Synonyms
originate, inaugurate. See begin.

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commence (kəˈmɛns)

—vb
	to start or begin; come or cause to come into being, operation, etc

[C14: from Old French comencer, from Vulgar Latin cominitiāre (unattested), from Latin com- (intensive) + initiāre to begin, from initium a beginning]

com'mencer

—n

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commence

early 14c., from O.Fr. comencier, from V.L. *cominitiare, orig. "to initiate as priest, consecrate," from L. com- "together" + initiare "to initiate."

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