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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [rɛ.kɔrˈdaː.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [re.korˈdat.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

recordātiō f (genitive recordātiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin recordor (“to call to mind”) + -tiō.[2][1] De Vaan lists recordor among the compounds of cor (“heart”),[3] which he traces to Proto-Italic *kord and Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗrd (“heart”).[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler's first source is Cicero,[4] who calls the memory and recollection of certain people pleasant.[5]

Semantic evolution

It is the act of calling to mind, recollection or remembrance, and Lewis & Short note that it is especially frequent in Cicero, in the singular and plural.[2][5] Quintilian uses it of the faculty of recollection, the firmest part of memory.[2] Church Latin glosses it “record, memory, remembrance”.[6] In Medieval Latin it is a monastic allowance given in memory of a donor, testimony, and a statement of customary law.[7]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero of pleasant recollection.[5][4]
  • c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of the faculty of recollection.[2][4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. Recollection, remembrance, calling to mind.[2][5][6][1]
  2. The faculty of recollection.[2]
  3. (Medieval Latin) An allowance given in memory of a donor.[7]
  4. (Medieval Latin) Testimony; a statement of customary law.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  4. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  7. ^ a b c Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill