{"id":181,"date":"2009-06-27T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T16:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-06-27T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T16:19:39","slug":"word-origin-recordar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/word-origin-recordar\/","title":{"rendered":"Word origin: recordar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the old days, people thought that feelings lived in the heart. For Aristotle, the heart was the core organ in the body and the brain played a supporting role. At the same time people thought the memory was also lodged in the heart, so the Romans started using the word <strong>recordari<\/strong>, which comes from <strong>cor <\/strong>(<em>heart<\/em>) and it came to Spanish as <em>recordar<\/em>. In current Portuguese, if you know something by heart, you know it \u201cde cor\u201d (from the heart).<\/p>\n<p>As feelings were in the heart, it was certain that when two people agree on something (ponerse de acuerdo) we say that they <em>concuerdan <\/em>or acuerdan and if they disagree, they <em>discuerdan<\/em>. In ancient Spanish, <em>acordar <\/em>(to remember or to agree) also means to wake up.<\/p>\n<p>Nos vemos prontito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the old days, people thought that feelings lived in the heart. For Aristotle, the heart was the core organ in the body and the brain played a supporting role. At the same time people thought the memory was also lodged in the heart, so the Romans started using the word recordari, which comes from&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/word-origin-recordar\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-etymology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}