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Register comes from Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta ‘list, items recorded’, from regerō ‘to record’, from re- + gerō ‘to carry’.

1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gesō¹‘to carry’reconstructed
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgerō¹‘to carry, bear’
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEregerō¹‘to carry back; to record’
4. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEregesta¹‘list, items recorded’
5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500registrum¹‘a register’
6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1597register¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English register
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wiues of Windsor: “As you have one eye upon my follies, […]…”.