Notice
/ˈnoʊ.tɪs/noun
Information, warning, or attention brought to someone’s awareness.
Did you know?Notice comes through Old French from Latin notitia, meaning “a being known” or “knowledge,” ultimately from the same root as noscere, “to know,” which also underlies words like recognize and notorious.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ǵneh₃-
“to know, recognize”
Latin
Latin
gnoscere / noscere
“to come to know, become acquainted with”
Latin
Latin
notitia
“a being known, acquaintance, knowledge”
Old French
Old French
notise / notice
“knowledge, information; notice, attention”
Middle English
English
notice
“knowledge, information; observation, attention”
Modern English
English
notice
“attention, notification, or a written announcement”