Renovate comes from Latin renovatus, past participle of renovare ('to renew'), from re- ('again') + novare ('to make new'), from novus ('new'). The historical chain includes Latin renovare, Latin novare, and Latin novus. The quoted older senses, "to renew", "again", "to make new", and "new", supply the semantic anchors for renovate. The formation is best read as compound, participial, and borrowed: the word renovate carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a verb, "to restore to good condition; refurbish". English derivatives include renovation and renovator; related English forms include innovate, novel, and new. The result is a verb whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.