'Record' is Latin for 'bring back to the heart' — Romans located memory in the heart, not the brain.
A thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially a written or other permanent account, or the best performance or most remarkable event of its kind.
From Latin 'recordārī,' meaning 'to remember, to call to mind, to think over,' composed of 're-' (again, back) and 'cor' (genitive 'cordis'), meaning 'heart.' The PIE root is *ḱerd- (heart), also the source of Greek 'kardia' and English 'heart' via Germanic. For the Romans, memory resided in the heart, not the brain, so to 'record' was literally to 'pass through the heart again.' The shift from the internal act
To 'record' something is literally to 'pass it through the heart again' — from Latin 're-' (again) and 'cor' (heart). The Romans believed memory lived in the heart, not the brain. The same root gives us 'courage' (acting from the heart), 'cordial' (heartfelt), 'accord' (hearts together), and 'discord' (hearts apart). Even 'learn by heart' preserves this ancient equation of heart and memory.