means A record is information set down or captured so it can be kept and revisited — whether written, filmed, or pressed into a spinning disc of sound.

from From the Latin recordari, 'to remember, call to mind,' built from re- ('back, again') and cor, cordis ('heart') — the old idea being that to remember was to bring something back through the heart, which the ancients treated as the seat of memory. It reached English through Old French recorder, and only much later did it spin off the sense of a grooved audio disc.