Recorde

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. To write something down so it is kept and can be consulted later ; to speak aloud from memory, reciting or relating events in order
2. Setting facts down in writing to preserve them ; reciting or narrating something verbally, as an archaic way of repeating a story
3. To commit information to a written or lasting form ; to tell or repeat something aloud, especially in the manner of an old-fashioned narration

Etymology: Latin "recordari" meant "to remember," and it was built from "re-" (back) and "cor," meaning "heart." The Romans pictured memory as something kept in the heart, so to recall a thing was, literally, to bring it back to the heart. Through Old French "recorder," the word reached English as a verb for calling something to mind. It also took on a legal sense, to put something formally on public record, and the noun for a written account grew out of that use. The spelling "recorde," with its final "e," survives in the surname of the Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde.