🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

再発する

Pronunciation / Transliteration: saihatsu suru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Recur/rɪˈkɜːr/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"この問題が再び再発する可能性があます。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To occur again, periodically, or repeatedly.

    "The problem is likely to recur unless we address its root cause."
  2. 2

    To come back to the mind, memory, or attention.

    "The memory of that day continued to recur throughout his life."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'recurrere', meaning 'to run back, return', composed of 're-' (back, again) and 'currere' (to run). It entered the English language in the late 16th century, initially retaining its literal sense of running back before shifting to its current abstract meaning of happening repeatedly.

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