Other forms: recounts, recounted, recounting
To recount is to describe events that happened. Recount the story, recounted in detail, he recounted how.
It means telling in order, and it is slightly formal — recounting is what witnesses and memoirists do. The other recount, stressed on the first syllable, is a second count of votes, which is a completely separate word: one is re-count and the other is from the French for telling. Note that the stress is the only thing distinguishing them in speech.
1verbrecountTo describe events that happened.
“She recounted the story of her escape to the police officers in great detail.”
2nounsecondA second count of votes.
“The result was so close that the losing candidate demanded a recount.”
recount is a telling, or a recounting of votes.
Anglo-Norman recunter is re- plus conter, to tell, from Latin computare, to reckon. Count, account and computer come from the same reckoning.
Anglo-Norman
recunter
English, today
recount
From fro-nor - and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Ways of Speaking