'reincorporate' originates from Latin, specifically formed from the prefix 're-' and the verb 'incorporare', where 're-' meant 'again' and 'incorporare' (from 'in-' + 'corpus') meant 'to make into a body'.

'reincorporate' changed from the Latin components 're-' + 'incorporare' (Late Latin 'incorporare' meaning 'to make into a body'), passed into Anglo-Norman/Middle English as forms of 'incorporate' and later developed in Modern English as 'reincorporate' by adding the prefix 're-'.

Initially, it meant 'to make into a body' or 'to combine into one'; over time it specialized to mean 'to form into a corporation again' or 'to restore corporate status', with additional general sense 'to include again'.