late 14c., from Old French repast (Modern French repas) "a meal, food," from Late Latin repastus "meal" (also source of Spanish repasto, noun use of past participle of repascere "to feed again," from Latin re- "repeatedly" (see re-) + pascere "to graze," from PIE root *pa- "to feed." The verb (intransitive) is from late 15c.
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