- recondition (v.)
[recondition 词源字典] - also re-condition, 1850, from re- "back, again" + condition (v.). Related: Reconditioned; reconditioning.[recondition etymology, recondition origin, 英语词源]
- reconfigure (v.)
- 1964, from re- + configure. Related: Reconfigured; reconfiguring.
- reconnaissance (n.)
- 1810, from French reconnaissance "act of surveying," literally "recognition," from Old French reconoissance "recognition, acknowledgement" (see recognizance).
- reconnect (v.)
- 1752, from re- + connect (v.). Related: Reconnected; reconnecting.
- reconnoiter (v.)
- also reconnoitre, 1707, "make a survey," from older French reconnoitre (Modern French reconnaître), from Old French reconoistre "to identify" (see recognize).
- reconquer (v.)
- 1580s, from Middle French reconquerre (12c.), from re- "again, back" (see re-) + conquerre (see conquer). Related: Reconquered; reconquering.
- reconquest (n.)
- 1540s, from Middle French reconqueste (16c., Modern French reconquête), cognate with Spanish reconquista; see re- + conquest.
- reconsider (v.)
- 1570s, from French reconsidérer and also from re- "back, again" + consider. Related: Reconsidered; reconsidering.
- reconsideration (n.)
- 1650s, from re- "again" + consideration.
- reconstitute (v.)
- 1790, from re- "back, again" + constitute (v.). Related: Reconstituted; reconstituting.
- reconstruct (v.)
- 1768, "to build anew," from re- "back, again" + construct (v.). Meaning "to restore (something) mentally" is attested from 1862. Related: Reconstructed; reconstructing.
- reconstruction (n.)
- 1791, "action or process of reconstructing," from re- + construction. In U.S. political history sense (usually with a capital R-), from 1865. It had been used during the American Civil War in reference to reconstitution of the union.
- reconvene (v.)
- 1640s, from re- + convene and from Medieval Latin reconvenire. Related: Reconvened; reconvening; reconvention.
- reconveyance (n.)
- 1714; see re- + conveyance.
- record (v.)
- c. 1200, "to repeat, reiterate, recite; rehearse, get by heart," from Old French recorder "tell, relate, repeat, recite, report, make known" (12c.) and directly from Latin recordari "remember, call to mind, think over, be mindful of," from re- "restore" (see re-) + cor (genitive cordis) "heart" (as the metaphoric seat of memory, as in learn by heart), from PIE root *kerd- (1) "heart" (see heart (n.)). Meaning "set down in writing" first attested mid-14c.; that of "put sound or pictures on disks, tape, etc." is from 1892. Related: Recorded; recording.
- record (n.)
- c. 1300, "testimony committed to writing," from Old French record "memory, statement, report," from recorder "to record" (see record (v.)). Meaning "written account of some event" is from late 14c. Meaning "disk on which sounds or images have been recorded" is first attested 1878. That of "best or highest recorded achievement in sports, etc." is from 1883. Phrase on the record is from 1900; adverbial phrase off the record "confidentially" is attested from 1906. Record-player attested from 1919.
- record-keeping (n.)
- also recordkeeping, 1841; see record (n.) + keeping, verbal noun from keep (v.).
- recordation (n.)
- late 14c., "faculty of remembering," Old French recordacion "record, memory" (14c.) or directly from Latin recordationem (nominative recordatio), noun of action from past participle stem of recordari (see record (v.)). Meaning "act or process of committing to writing" is c. 1810.
- recorder (n.)
- "chief legal officer of a city," early 15c., from Anglo-French recordour (early 14c.), Old French recordeor "witness; storyteller; minstrel," from Medieval Latin recordator, from Latin recordari "remember" (see record (v.)).
Meaning "registering apparatus" is from 1873. The musical instrument is attested by this name from early 15c., from record (v.) in the obsolete sense of "practice a tune." Used by Shakespeare and Milton ("of flutes and soft recorders," "Paradise Lost"). The name, and the device, were rarely heard by mid-1800s, ousted by the flute, but enjoyed a revival after 1911 as an easy-to-play instrument for musical beginners. - recount (v.1)
- "to tell," mid-15c., also recompt, from Old North French and Anglo-French reconter (12c., Modern French raconter), from Old French re- (see re-) + conter "to relate, reckon" (see count (v)). Related: Recounted; recounting.
