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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [rɛˈkɔr.dɔr][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈkɔr.dor][1]

Forms

recordor (present infinitive recordārī, perfect active recordātus sum); first conjugation, deponent[1]

Etymology

It is from re- and cor “heart, mind”, oblique stem ⟨cord-⟩, with a verb suffix, perhaps on the model of discordō.[2][1][3] An active ⟨recordō⟩ is in Quadrigarius and Varro.[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis and Short cite Plautus, and the OLD's earliest citations for its constructions are from Cicero.[4][2] Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.[5]

Semantic evolution

It meant to call to mind, think over, give one's thoughts to, as Cicero's rem recordārī “to recall a thing”, and with a clause to recollect that.[2][6] Lewis and Short explain it as being mindful of a thing as the result of reminīscī, recalling it to memory.[4] Döderlein explains that meminisse is remembrance as a state of mind, having kept something in memory without forgetting it.[7]

It survives in Italian ricordare and Spanish and Portuguese recordar.[1] Through Old French recorder “to tell, repeat, recite” it gave English record about 1200.[8]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has the word.[4][5]
  • 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of recollecting.[2][6][5]
  • 116–27 BC – Varro has the active recordō.[2][5]
  • c. 1200 – English record is recorded, through Old French.[8]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To call to mind, recollect, remember.[2]
  2. To think over.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  5. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  7. ^ Döderlein, Ludwig (1874), Döderlein’s Hand-book of Latin Synonymes, tr. H. H. Arnold, Andover: W. F. Draper
  8. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com