English
recense
Recense comes from Latin recēnseō ‘to count, enumerate, reckon or survey’, and goes back to cēnseō ‘give an opinion’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēnseō‘give an opinion’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecēnseōas recensere‘to count, enumerate, reckon or survey’
- Englishearliest quotation 1716recense
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcēnseō‘give an opinion’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecēnseōas recensere‘to count, enumerate, reckon or survey’
- Englishearliest quotation 1716recense
Earliest quotation: 1716, Richard Bentley, D.D.: “Pope Sixtus and Clemens at a vast expense had…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- ‘to announce’
charm, cosmic, cosmetic, cosmos, cosmetology, 11 more
through Latin cēnseō ‘give an opinion’
Today it means
verb To review; to revise.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cēnseō / recense