Remain
/rɪˈmeɪn/noun
To stay in the same place, state, or condition; to be left after others have gone.
Did you know?‘Remain’ entered English through Old French from Latin roots meaning ‘to stay back,’ and it shares ancestry with words like ‘mansion’ and ‘manor’ through the idea of *staying in one place*.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*men-
“to stay, remain, dwell”
Latin
Latin
manēre
“to stay, remain, abide”
Late Latin
Latin
remanēre
“to stay behind, continue to remain”
Old French
Old French
remaindre
“to remain, be left”
Middle English
English
remainen
“to remain, be left over”
Modern English
English
remain
“to stay, continue in a place or condition”