Where does “recordman” come from?
recordman (French) comes from French record, from Old French record, from Old French recorder, from Vulgar Latin recordare, from Latin recordor, from Latin rĕ-, from Latin prōdūcō, from Latin prō- — passed , crossed.
recordman (French): record holder, usually a world record holder
Definitions
- record holder, usually a world record holder
Ancestry of “recordman”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | record | record |
| 2 | Old French | record | recollection, testimony |
| 3 | Old French | recorder | to record; to register; to recall; to remember |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | recordare | second-person singular present active... |
| 5 | Latin | recordor | I call to mind, remember, recall, recollect |
| 6 | Latin | rĕ- | — |
| 7 | Latin | prōdūcō | — |
| 8 | Latin | prō- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
Words derived from “recordman”