Rerecord

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To record a sound or visual content again, replacing or supplementing a previous recording; to capture data once more for correction or improvement; to perform a new recording session of previously recorded material
2. To make a subsequent recording of audio or video content, often to enhance quality or update information; to redo a recording to fix errors from an earlier version; to create another version by capturing the same material again
3. To overwrite or supplement an existing recording by capturing new audio or video; to perform another session of recording previously captured content to improve or alter it; to record again for purposes of updating or correcting the original material

Etymology: "Rerecord" is a plain formation: the prefix "re-", meaning "again," attached to "record." The base verb "record" came into English through Old French from Latin "recordari," meaning "to remember" or "to call to mind," which itself was built from "re-" and "cor," the Latin word for "heart." The old idea was that memory lived in the heart, so to record something was to bring it back to the heart, and the sense of setting something down in writing or on a medium grew out of that. Because "record" already carried the idea of preserving something for later, adding "re-" simply signals a second capture. The prefix is an active, productive one in English, so new verbs like this one could be formed easily whenever recording technology made the need arise.

Synonyms: record again, retrack, re-record, overwrite

Antonyms: preserve, keep original, retain