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Where does “record-setting” come from?

record-setting (English) comes from English record, from French record, from Old French record, from Old French recorder, from Vulgar Latin recordare, from Latin recordor, from Latin rĕ-, from Latin prōdūcō — passed , crossed.

record-setting (English): Creating a new record, or most extreme known...

Definitions

  1. Creating a new record, or most extreme known...

Ancestry of “record-setting”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrecordAn item of information put into a temporary or...
2Frenchrecordrecord
3Old Frenchrecordrecollection, testimony
4Old Frenchrecorderto record; to register; to recall; to remember
5Vulgar Latinrecordaresecond-person singular present active...
6LatinrecordorI call to mind, remember, recall, recollect
7Latinrĕ-—
8Latinprōdūcō—
9Latinprō-—
10Proto-Italic*pro-—
11Proto-Indo-Europeanpro-toward, forward
12Proto-Indo-Europeanpor-to give birth; forward, through; going, passage
13Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
14Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
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