recite

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To say a piece of writing aloud from memory, often to an audience.

   The student recited a poem in front of the class.

2. 2
   verb

   To list or state a series of things one after another.

   She recited all the reasons why the plan would fail.

Simplified etymology

Recite entered late Middle English through French from Latin recitare, meaning “read out.” Recitare combines the intensifying prefix re- with citare, “cite”; English first used recite legally for stating a fact in a document, before developing the sense “repeat aloud from memory.”

From Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitō.

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