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Represent comes from Old French représenter, from Latin repraesentō ‘to show, exhibit’, from praesentō ‘to present’, ultimately from sum ‘to be’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsum¹‘to be’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesum¹‘to be before, preside’
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesens²‘present’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraesentō³‘to present’
5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErepraesentō⁴‘to show’
6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400représenter⁴
7. Englishearliest quotation 1983represent⁴

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin praesens
2. ² Wiktionary, Latin praesento
3. ³ Wiktionary, Latin repraesento
4. ⁴ Wiktionary, English represent
5. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks: “A person climbs a mountain, not only "because it…”.