recordantia

Forms

recordantia f (genitive recordantiae); first declension^[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin recordor (“to remember”), with the suffix -antia.^[1][2]

Earliest recorded meaning

The only ancient example is in Ambrose's work on Job, where the cherubim are said to hold the remembrance of sacred knowledge and of the eternal light; some manuscripts read recordatio there instead.^[1][2]

Semantic evolution

The TLL defines it as the act or faculty of remembering.^[1] Conte gives it as the Late Latin source of Italian ricordanza.^[3]

Timeline

• c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose uses it in his commentary on Job.^[1][4]

Meanings

Noun

1. (Late Latin) Remembrance, memory; the faculty of remembering.^[1][2][3]

Usage notes

The usual Classical word for remembrance is recordatio, the reading of some manuscripts in the one passage of Ambrose.^[1]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
2. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
3. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
4. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de