The moving of a thing to a different named class. Reclassification admits an earlier claim was wrong.
Re- (Latin, again) attached to classification, from classis (a class, a division), from calare (to call, to summon); reclassification calls a thing into a different group than it was first called into.
The moving of a thing to a different named class. To reclassify is to admit, plainly, that an earlier call was wrong — the root's own summoning is simply repeated with a truer answer.