recorder

English

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recorder

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Etymology 1

From Middle English recordour, borrowed from Old French recordour, from Old French recordeor, from Medieval Latin recordātor, from Latin recordor (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

recorder (plural recorders)

1. An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
2. Agent noun of record; one who records.
3. A judge in a municipal court.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English recorder, from record (“to practice (music)”); ultimately cognate with Etymology 1.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

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Noun

recorder (plural recorders)

2. (music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

   Synonyms: English flute, sweet flute

   Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.

   • 1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book 10.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, , volume I, London: J Johnson, , →OCLC, page 242, lines 12-14:

     […] he beheld
     The city fronted with bright fires, and heard
     Pipes, and recorders, and the hum of war;

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Great Expectations , volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, , published October 1861, →OCLC, page 201:

     On his taking the recorders—very like a little black flute that had just been played in the orchestra and handed out at the door—he was called upon unanimously for Rule Britannia.

   • 1982, Anne Tyler, chapter 5, in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant‎, New York: Knopf, page 133:

     And when they paused on a hilltop for lunch, he whipped out his battered recorder and commenced to tootling “Greensleeves,” scaring off all living creatures within a five-mile radius—which may have been his intention.

   • 2017, Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic‎, New York: Penguin Random House:

     […] he had huffed into his white plastic recorder while scowling at the sheets of music that lay open on the wobbly stainless-steel stand.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “recorder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• re-record, rerecord

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French recorder, from Old French recorder, from Latin recordārī (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

Verb

recorder

1. to say something repetitively in order to learn

   As-tu recordé ta leçon?

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Conjugation

Related terms

• recordation
• record

Etymology 2

From re- +‎ corder.

Verb

recorder

1. to restring

Further reading

• “recorder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Latin

Verb

recorder

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of recordor

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French recorder.

Verb

recorder

1. to record; to register; to make a record (of)

   recorder une histoire

   to make a record of a story

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: recorder

Old French

Etymology

From Latin recordārī.

Verb

recorder

1. to record; to register
2. to recall; to remember

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• recort
• recordeor

Descendants

• Middle French: recorder
  • French: recorder
• → Middle English: recorden
  • English: record

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (recorder)