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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1301|origins=la gerō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /reˈd͡ʒis.tro/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''registro''' ''m'' (plural registri)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old Italian also had [[m|roa-oit|ligistro]] (Giovanni Villani), with the verb ''ligistrare''.^(DEI|3224)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a learned word, [[bor|la-med|registrum]].^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) The Medieval Latin noun, which seems to have been used first, around 600, for the collected letters of Gregory the Great, was formed with an inserted /r/ from [[la-lat|regesta|t=things recorded]] (4th century, Vopiscus); the verb [[m|la-lat|registrō]] (6th century) has the same /r/.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GDLI|15, 721) Devoto compares the ending with that of [[ginestra]] and [[inchiostro]], and Wiktionary analyses the Medieval Latin noun as the Late Latin plural with the suffix [[m|la|-trum]].^(Devoto 1968)^(Wiktionary) DEI notes the same change of ending in [[fr|registre]] (13th century) and [[de|Register]].^(DEI|3224)

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+ The Late Latin plural is the neuter of the past participle of [[la|regerō|t=to carry back; to record]], which is [[m|la|gerō|t=to carry]] with the prefix [[m|la|re-]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(DELI 1999) De Vaan derives the simple verb from [[ine-pro|*h₂eǵ-es-|t=to carry]], a view generally accepted since the laryngeal theory.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Nocentini dates the word to 1301, for a book in which data are collected.^(Nocentini 2010) DELI's first record is the legal sense, a book for recording acts or facts, in Giovanni Villani, before 1348, who tells of names “put in a secret register” (''messo in segreto registro scritto'').^(DELI 1999)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In music the word is recorded from 1521 (Cesare Cesariano) for a set of homogeneous sounds, and in the 17th century for the stops of an organ;^(DELI 1999)^(DEI|3224) ''mutare registro'', figuratively “to change one's manner”, is in Annibal Caro in 1558, and the now more usual ''cambiare registro'' is recorded in 1942.^(DELI 1999)^(DEI|3224) The range of the human voice is called ''registro'' from 1680.^(DELI 1999)

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+ Technical senses followed in 1804: a device for adjusting a mechanism, and in printing the exact alignment of several elements.^(DELI 1999) The public registry office, ''ufficio del registro'', is recorded in 1872.^(DELI 1999) Linguistics uses the word for the level of style suited to a situation, and computing for a memory area inside the processor.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1301 – Nocentini's date for ''registro''.^(Nocentini 2010)

+ * Before 1348 – Giovanni Villani uses the word and the form ''ligistro''.^(DELI 1999)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

+ * 1521 – The musical sense is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1558 – Annibal Caro uses ''mutare registro''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1680 – The word names the range of a voice.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1804 – The mechanical and printing senses are recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1872 – ''Ufficio pubblico del registro'' appears in Tommaseo's dictionary.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1942 – ''Cambiare registro'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A book or file in which acts and data are recorded in order, a [[m|en|register]] or [[m|en|ledger]]: ''Il cassiere annota ogni spesa nel registro.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(school)'' The book in which teachers record lessons, marks and absences: ''Il professore ha scritto un'altra nota sul registro di classe.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(law)'' A public record of legally relevant acts concerning persons and property; also the office that keeps it, the ''ufficio del registro''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(music)'' The range of a voice or instrument; a stop of an organ.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(DELI 1999)^(DEI|3224)

+ # ''(linguistics)'' The level of style of speech or writing: ''un registro formale''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A device that regulates a mechanism, as in a watch or a carburettor.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(printing)'' The exact alignment of the elements printed on a sheet.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(DELI 1999)

+ # ''(computing)'' A memory area inside the processor.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[registrare]]

+ * [[registratore]]

+ * [[registrazione]]

+ * [[registrabile]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[regesto]]

+ * [[la|registrum]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Cambiare registro'', or ''mutare registro'', means to change one's tone or behaviour.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}