recordor Latin · revision 7196

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛˈkɔr.dɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈkɔr.dor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recordor''' (present infinitive recordārī, perfect active recordātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[re-]] and [[cor]] “heart, mind”, oblique stem ⟨cord-⟩, with a verb suffix, perhaps on the model of [[discordō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) An active ⟨recordō⟩ is in Quadrigarius and Varro.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis and Short cite Plautus, and the OLD's earliest citations for its constructions are from Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==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.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis and Short explain it as being mindful of a thing as the result of ''reminīscī'', recalling it to memory.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein explains that ''meminisse'' is remembrance as a state of mind, having kept something in memory without forgetting it.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ It survives in Italian ''ricordare'' and Spanish and Portuguese ''recordar''.^(Wiktionary) Through Old French ''recorder'' “to tell, repeat, recite” it gave [[en|record]] about 1200.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has the word.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of recollecting.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro has the active ''recordō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1200 – English ''record'' is recorded, through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To call to mind, [[m|en|recollect]], remember.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To think over.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cor]]

+ * [[memini]]

+ * [[reminīscor]]

+ * [[en|record]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}