Where does “recordation” come from?
recordation (English) comes from Old French recordacion, from Latin recordatio, from Latin recordārī, from English record, from French record, from Old French record, from Old French recorder, from Vulgar Latin recordare — passed , crossed.
recordation (English): The act of giving legal status to a document by...
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- The act of giving legal status to a document by...
Ancestry of “recordation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | recordacion | record, memory |
| 2 | Latin | recordatio | recollection, remembrance, reminiscence |
| 3 | Latin | recordārī | — |
| 4 | English | record | An item of information put into a temporary or... |
| 5 | French | record | record |
| 6 | Old French | record | recollection, testimony |
| 7 | Old French | recorder | to record; to register; to recall; to remember |
| 8 | Vulgar Latin | recordare | second-person singular present active... |
| 9 | Latin | recordor | I call to mind, remember, recall, recollect |
| 10 | Latin | rĕ- | back, backwards |
| 11 | Latin | prōdūcō | to lead or bring forth, forward or out |
| 12 | Latin | prō- | forward direction, forward movement |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | pro- see the Latin entry for further meanings |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |