Editing Recorder (musical instrument) (section)

=== Etymology ===
The instrument name ''recorder'' derives from the Latin {{Lang|la|recordārī}} (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of [[Middle French|Middle-French]] verb {{Lang|frm|recorder}} (before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|chapter=record, v.1|year = 2005|title=[[Oxford English Dictionary]]|edition = 3rd}}</ref><ref name="cnrtl1">{{Cite web|url = https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/dmf/recorder|title = recorder<sup>1</sup>, verbe|access-date = 5 February 2016|website = Dictionnaire du Moyen Français|publisher=[[Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales]]}}</ref> and its derivative {{Lang|frm|recordeur}} ({{circa|1395}}; one who retells, a minstrel).<ref>{{Cite book|chapter=recorder, n.<sup>2</sup> |year = 2005 |title=[[Oxford English Dictionary]]|edition = 3rd}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/dmf/recordeur?idf=complXrmYXcbdcfb;str=0|title = recordeur|access-date = 5 February 2016|website = Dictionnaire du Moyen Français|publisher=[[Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales]]}}</ref> The association between the various, seemingly-disparate, meanings of ''recorder'' can be attributed to the role of the medieval ''[[jongleur]]'' in learning poems by heart and later reciting them, sometimes with musical accompaniment.<ref name="cnrtl1" />

Appending the name ''recorder'' to the instrument itself is uniquely English: In Middle-French there is no equivalent noun sense of {{Lang|frm|recorder}} referring to a musical instrument.<ref name="cnrtl1" /> The English verb ''record'' (from Middle-French {{Lang|frm|recorder}}, early thirteenth century) meant "to learn by heart, to commit to memory, to go over in one's mind, to recite"; but the term did not refer to ''playing music'' until the sixteenth century. It was long after the English recorder was so-named that it gained two additional meanings: "silently practicing a tune", or "sing or render in song"—both referring almost-exclusively to songbirds.<ref name=":0" />

Partridge indicates that the use of the instrument by {{Lang|fr|jongleurs}} led to its association with the verb: {{Lang|fr|Recorder}} the minstrel's action, a ''recorder'' the minstrel's tool.<ref name="ReferenceB2"/><ref>{{Cite book|title = Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English|last = Partridge|first = Eric|publisher = Routledge|year = 1977}}</ref> The reason is uncertain why this flute instrument—rather than some other instrument played by the {{Lang|fr|jongleurs}})—is known as the recorder.