registration English · revision 6005

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1566|origins=la-med registratio}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˌredʒ.ɪˈstreɪ.ʃən/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|frm|registration]] and directly [[bor|la-med|registrātiō|t=a registering]] (accusative registrationem),^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002) a noun of action from the past participle stem of registrāre, from [[m|la-med|registrum]] (see [[register]]),^(Etymonline) based on Latin regerere “to enter, record”.^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The act of entering in a register: perhaps 1566 in the OED, the 1560s in Etymonline.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 16th and 17th centuries it gave a back-formed verb, registrate.^(Etymonline) An entry made in a register is from 1611.^(OED 1989) Registration acts, fees and courts are named from 1885.^(OED 1989) In organ playing, the choice and combination of stops for a piece is from 1881,^(OED 1989)^(AHD) and in printing the state of being in register, with impressions exactly aligned, from 1890.^(OED 1989) The registration number of a motor vehicle is a 20th-century British use.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1566 – the act of registering.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1611 – an entry in a register.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1881 – organ registration.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1890 – in printing.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The act of registering, or of being recorded on an official list: ''voter registration''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # An entry in a [[register]], or a document showing it.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(British)'' The registration number of a motor [[vehicle]].^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(music)'' The combination of [[organ]] stops chosen for a piece.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[registrational]]

+ * [[misregistration]]

+ * [[nonregistration]]

+ * [[preregistration]]

+ * [[reregistration]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[register]]

+ * [[registrar]]

+ * [[registry]]

+ * [[regest]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}