'Revise' is Latin for 'look at again' — from 'videre' (to see). Correction through re-reading.
To examine or reexamine and make corrections or alterations to; to reconsider and amend.
From Middle French "reviser" (to look at again), from Latin "revīsere" meaning "to look at again, to visit again," a frequentative form of "revidēre" (to see again), composed of "re-" (again, back) and "vidēre" (to see). Latin "vidēre" derives from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (to see, to know), one of the most important roots in the family, linking vision and knowledge across all branches. PIE *weyd- produced Sanskrit "veda" (knowledge, as in the Vedas — literally "that which is seen/known"), Greek "eidénai" (to know) and "eidos" (form, shape), Old
In British English, 'revise' is the standard word for studying before exams — 'I need to revise for my chemistry exam.' This usage preserves the original Latin meaning more faithfully than the American sense of 'correcting': to revise for an exam is literally to 'see again' the material you have already studied.
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