Etymograph

English

notice

Notice is borrowed from Middle French notice, from Latin nōtitia.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnōtitia1‘knowledge, fame’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600notice1
  3. Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1606notice1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English notice
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of King Lear: “I have been with your father and given him…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnōtitiaWiktionary, English notice‘knowledge, fame’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600noticeWiktionary, English notice
  3. Englishearliest quotation c. 1603–1606noticeWiktionary, English notice. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of King Lear: “I have been with your father and given him…”

Word family

English words that share an ancestor with notice, grouped by the ancestor they share, most familiar first.

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- ‘to recognise’

  • can ← cunnan ← *kunnan ← *kunnaną ← *ǵn̥néh₃ti
  • could ← coude ← cūþe ← cunnan ← *kunnaną
  • know ← knowen ← cnāwan ← *knāan ← *knēaną
  • normal ← normālis ← nōrma ← γνώμων
  • glory ← glorie ← glōria ← *gnōr-
  • recognition ← recognicion ← recognicion ← recognitiōnem ← recognitus
  • con ← connen ← cunnan ← *kunnan ← *kunnaną
  • ignore ← ignorer ← īgnōrō
  • ken ← kennen ← cennan ← cunnan ← *kannijan
  • narrative ← narratif ← narrātīvus ← narrō ← *gnārāō
  • keen ← kene ← cēne ← *kōniz
  • ignorant ← ignōrāns ← ignōrō ← *gnō-sāō

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Today it means

noun The act of observing; perception.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “notice”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Latin nōtitia / notice