🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

recordar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ree-kor-dar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Recollect/ˌrɛkəˈlɛkt/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ainda posso recordar o dia em que nos conhecemos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To remember or bring to mind something from the past.

    "I can still recollect the day we first met."
  2. 2

    To gather or collect again.

    "She tried to recollect her thoughts after the interruption."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'recollect' originates from the Latin 'recollectus', the past participle of 'recollegere', meaning 'to gather again'. It evolved through Middle English, reflecting a shift from a physical gathering to a mental act of remembering.

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