recorder

Meaning

Noun

• An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
• Agent noun of record; one who records.
• A judge in a municipal court.
• A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

Origin

• From Middle English recordour, borrowed from Old French recordour, from Old French recordeor, from Medieval Latin recordātor, from Latin recordor ("call to mind, remember, recollect"), from re- + cor.
• From Middle English recorder, from record.