Registered
verbRecorded or enrolled a name, fact, or item in an official list or record.
How to spell registered
10 letters · 3 syllables
How to pronounce registered
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does registered mean?
- verbRecorded or enrolled a name, fact, or item in an official list or record.
- adjectiveOfficially recorded, qualified, or entered on an authorised list.
Registered in a sentence
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verb
They registered the birth of their daughter at the local council office.
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adjective
The contract was sent by registered post to guarantee delivery.
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verb
She registered for the evening course before the deadline closed.
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adjective
She has worked as a registered nurse at the hospital for ten years.
Where does registered come from?
Language of origin: Latin
The base word register traces back to the Latin regerere, meaning 'to carry back' or 'to record', built from re- 'back' and gerere 'to carry or bear'. From this came the late Latin noun regestum and its plural regesta, a 'list of things recorded'. Medieval Latin reshaped this into registrum, which passed into Old French as registre and then into English in the late 1300s, naming an official written record or list. The verb 'to register', meaning to enter a name or fact into such a record, followed soon after, and 'registered' is simply its past form. The same gerere root also lies behind 'gesture' and 'digest', a useful reminder that the middle of the word is reg-IS-ter, with the unstressed syllable that writers often blur.
How the word is built
- register (from Latin regerere: to record, carry back)
- -ed (past tense / adjective suffix)
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