English

forenote

From fore- + note.

Formed from fore- + note

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

Latin nota ‘mark’

Old English not ‘note’

Middle English note

English note

Today it means

noun A preceding note or message; a preface.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / forenote