English
realise
Realise may come from French réaliser ‘to direct (a movie)’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentréaliser‘to direct (a movie)’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1733realise
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentréaliser‘to direct (a movie)’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1733realise
Earliest quotation: a. 1733, Thomas Boston, The Danger of Unworthy Communicating: “[F]aith realiſeth the ſufferings of Chriſt; it looks upon…”
Formed from real + -ise
Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís ‘wealth, goods’
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Latin rēs ‘thing, matter’
Late Latin reālis ‘actual’
Old French reel
Middle English real ‘real, true’
English real
Linked words
through Latin rēs ‘thing, event, deed, fact’
through Old French reel
through Middle French real ‘actual’
Today it means
verb Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French réaliser / realise