Remy traces to the Latin Remigius, likely built on remigare, to row, though popular use has long linked the name loosely to remedium, remedy, giving it an added association with healing. Between the two threads runs a sense of steady, effortful care -- work done to move something forward or to mend it.
The signification of the conjunction, is not lessened by an aspect; but the aspect is by the conjunction; as having lesser force, than it. - William Lilly (1602.-1681.)