English word renaissance comes from Latin nascor, French naissance ((figuratively) birth; invention; creation. Birth.), Latin re-, Latin renascor (I am born again. I am revived, renewed.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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nascor | Latin (lat) | I am a number of years old. I am born, begotten. I arise, proceed. I grow, spring forth. |
naissance | French (fr) | (figuratively) birth; invention; creation. Birth. |
re- | Latin (lat) | Again; prefix added to various words to indicate an action being done again, or like the other usages indicated above under English.. Back, backwards. |
renascor | Latin (lat) | I am born again. I am revived, renewed. |
renaistre | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | To be reborn. |
renasci | Latin (lat) | |
renaître | French (fr) | (figurative) to rekindle. (intransitive) to be reborn, to be born again. (intransitive) to reappear, to resurface. |
renaissance | French (fr) | Rebirth, renaissance. |
renaissance | English (en) | (historic) Alternative form of Renaissance. A rebirth or revival. |