# recorder
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɹiˈkɔː.də/
* (US) IPA: /ɹiˈkɔɹ.dəɹ/, /ɹə-/
* Hyphenation: re‧cord‧er
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

### 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”).

#### Noun

recorder (plural recorders)
* An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
* Agent noun of record; one who records.
* A judge in a municipal court.

##### Derived terms

* basset recorder
* camcorder
* cassette recorder
* cockpit recorder
* cockpit voice recorder
* data recorder
* descant recorder
* digital video recorder
* event data recorder
* event recorder
* flight data recorder
* flight recorder
* magnetic recorder
* minicorder
* nanorecorder
* personal video recorder
* radio cassette recorder
* recordership
* siphon recorder
* tape recorder
* time recorder
* treble recorder
* videocassette recorder
* video recorder
* voyage data recorder
* wire recorder
* XY recorder
* X-Y recorder

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

recorder (plural recorders)
* (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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.
** 1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book 10.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] 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 [Hamlet’s] 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

* alto recorder
* bass recorder
* contrabass recorder
* garklein recorder
* great bass recorder
* recorderist
* recordist
* sopranino recorder
* soprano recorder
* tenor recorder

##### 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
* to say something repetitively in order to learn
    As-tu recordé ta leçon?(please add an English translation of this usage example)

##### Related terms

* recordation
* record

### Etymology 2

From re- +‎ corder.

#### Verb

recorder
* to restring

### Further reading

* “recorder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Verb

recorder
* first-person singular present active subjunctive of recordor

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French recorder.

### Verb

recorder
* to record; to register; to make a record (of)
    recorder une histoireto 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
* to record; to register
* 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)