recount
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recount¹
- /ɹɪˈkaʊnt/
Rhymes with -aʊnt
Where it comes from
From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.
noun recounts
- Narration, account, description, rendering.
verb recounts · recounting · recounted
- To tell; narrate; to relate in detail. The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- To rehearse; to enumerate. to recount one's blessings
recount²
- /ˈɹiːkaʊnt/
- /ɹiːˈkaʊnt/
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin putus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin computō
Anglo-Norman counterbor.
Middle English counten
English count
English recount
From re- + count.
noun recounts
- A counting again, as of votes. The Georgia Republican Party and US Rep. Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican who’s leading the Trump campaign’s recount efforts in the state, on Tuesday requested a pre-certification “manual hand recount of every ballot cast within the State of Georgia” for president.
verb recounts · recounting · recounted
- To count again. Georgia’s secretary of state announced Wednesday that the state will conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential race, recounting by hand the millions of ballots cast in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden is leading.
