"record (best result)" in seven languages
Meaningrecord (best result)
Spanish
/ˈrekoɾd/
masc.borrowed · English record
Plural récords; the final d is often barely heard.
French
/ʁəkɔʁ/
masc.borrowed · English record
Italian
/ˈrɛkord/
masc.borrowed · English record
Invariable: i record.
Portuguese
/heˈkɔhdʒi/
masc.borrowed · English record
Romanian
/reˈkord/
neut.borrowed · English record (partly via French)
Catalan
/ˈrɛkuɾt/
masc.borrowed · English record
English
/ˈɹɛkɚd/
from Latin/French · Old French record, from recorder 'to recall' (Latin RECORDĀRĪ)
The Latin ancestor
RECORDĀRĪ‘to call to mind (from COR 'heart')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
RECORDĀRĪ 'to bring back to heart' gave Spanish recordar and Italian ricordare 'to remember'. English record, via French, turned memory into writing, and the sports sense then travelled back to the sisters from English.
English relatives: recorder; cordial, courage (from COR)
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In a sentence
- esBatió el récord mundial.
- frElle a battu le record du monde.
- itHa battuto il record mondiale.
- ptEla bateu o recorde mundial.
- roA doborât recordul mondial.
- caVa batre el rècord mundial.
- enShe broke the world record.
The Latin family
COR, CORD-· heart
COR was a short neuter noun; French and Italian kept it (cœur, cuore), while Spanish replaced it with an augmentative *CORĀTIŌNE → corazón. The oblique stem CORD- lives on in learned words, and the Romans located memory in the heart: RECORDĀRĪ is 'to bring back to heart'. Catalan kept cor; Portuguese shares coração with Spanish; Romanian calls the heart inimă, from ANIMA 'breath, soul'.
CORheart
frcœuritcuorecacor
*CORĀTIŌNEMbig heart (augmentative)
escorazónptcoração
CORDIĀLEM (Medieval Latin)of the heart
escordialfrcordialitcordialeptcordialrocordialcacordialencordial
RECORDĀRĪto call to mind
esrecordaritricordareptrecordarcarecordarenrecord
CONCORDIAMagreement, 'hearts together'
esconcordiafrconcordeitconcordiaptconcórdiaroconcordiecaconcòrdiaenconcord
COR + -ĀTICUM (Old French formation)heart-ness, spirit
escorajefrcourageitcoraggioptcoragemrocurajcacoratgeencourage