English
record
Record comes from Middle English recorde, from Old French record, from recorder ‘to register, recall’, from Latin recordor ‘to remember’ (re- + cor ‘heart, mind’).
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerd-‘heart’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcor‘heart; mind’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecordor‘to remember, call to mind’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400recorder‘to register, to recall’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400record
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500recorde
- Englishearliest quotation 1952record
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerd-‘heart’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcor‘heart; mind’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecordor‘to remember, call to mind’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400recorder‘to register, to recall’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400record
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500recorde
- Englishearliest quotation 1952record
Earliest quotation: 1952, C. S. Lewis: “But it's far worse for me," said Edmund, "because…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- ‘heart’
heart, encourage, courage, cardiac, creed, accord, discord, concord, myocardium, 8 more
Another origin of record
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-‘heart’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kord‘heart’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcor‘heart’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CErecordārī‘remember, call to mind’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400recorder‘to get by heart’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500recorden‘to repeat, to report’
- Englishtodayrecord
Today it means
noun An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- / record