Other forms: rerouted, rerouting, reroutes
To reroute is to send something by a different way. Reroute the traffic, rerouted flights, reroute the data.
It is what happens when the usual path is blocked, and the whole design of the internet rests on it — data reroutes around a failure without anybody deciding. In transport, rerouting is the standard response to closures. Note that the pronunciation of route varies, and reroute follows whichever you use.
1verbrerouteTo send something by a different way.
“Because of the storm, our flight was rerouted to another airport.”
reroute is a redirecting.
Proto-Indo-European
*Hrewp-
Latin
rupta via
Old French
rote
Middle English
route
English
route
English, today
reroute
From re- + route. route comes from Middle English route, from Old French rote, from Latin rupta via literally “a path made by force”. Compare Modern French route. See routine. Further via ruptus related with bankrupt. Unrelated to road.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA