Other forms: notified, notifying, notifies
To notify is to tell somebody officially. Notify the police, notify us of any change, you will be notified.
It is formal and belongs to institutions: notify somebody of something, or notify somebody that something has happened. In ordinary speech people say tell or let know. The noun notification now most often means a message from an app, which has quietly become the commonest sense of the word among anybody under thirty. Note notifiable, which of a disease means one that must by law be reported.
1verbnotifyTo tell somebody officially.
“The school notified every parent within about an hour.”
notify is a way of informing.
Latin notificare is notus, known, plus facere, to make — to make known. Note, notice, notion and notable all come from the same noscere, to know.
Old French
notifier
Middle English
notifien
English, today
notify
From Middle English notifien, a borrowing from Old French notifier, notefiier.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA