Other forms: remarks
A remark is something said briefly about a subject. A passing remark, an unfortunate remark, make a remark.
It is short by definition, which is why remarks in a speech means the whole speech only when the speaker is being modest. As a verb it means to say and also to notice, and remarkable keeps the second sense — worth noticing. The French means to mark again.
1nounremarkSomething said briefly about a subject.
“She made a rude remark about my haircut.”
remark is a comment.
French remarquer means to mark again or note, from re- plus marquer, to mark.
Old French
remarquer
Middle French
remarquer
English, today
remark
Built from
From Middle French remarquer, from Old French remarquer, from re- (“again”) + marquer (“to mark”), equivalent to re- + mark.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA