respeak

English

Alternative forms

• re-speak

Etymology

re- +‎ speak

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːk

Verb

respeak (third-person singular simple present respeaks, present participle respeaking, simple past respoke or (archaic, poetic) respake, past participle respoken)

1. To speak or utter again.
2. (television) To repeat the words of a televised person so that they can be electronically recognised and used to generate subtitles.
3. (poetic, obsolete) To answer; to echo.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 127-128:

     And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
     Re-speaking earthly thunder.

References

• “respeak”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Preseka, Speaker, parkees, peakers, respake, speaker