Other forms: recitals
A recital is a performance of music or poetry. A piano recital, give a recital, a student recital.
It is smaller than a concert and usually one performer or a very few, which is the whole distinction — a recital is intimate by design. Student recitals are a fixed part of musical training. The other sense is a formal account: a recital of the facts, which in contracts names the introductory clauses setting out the background. Note recite, recitation.
1nounrecitalA performance of music or poetry.
“Her first piano recital is on Saturday, and she's very nervous.”
2nounaccountA formal account of facts.
“The witness gave a calm recital of everything she had seen that night.”
recital is a performance or an account.
Proto-Indo-European
*keyh₂-
Latin
recitō
Old French
reciter
Middle English
reciten
English
recite
English, today
recital
From recite + -al. recite comes from Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA