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Etymology

The word ' diary ' comes from the Latin diarium ("daily allowance," from dies, "day"). The word 'journal' comes from the same root (diurnus, "of the day") through the Old French jurnal (the modern French for 'day' being jour).

The earliest recorded use of the word 'diary' to refer to a book in which a daily record was written was in Ben Jonson 's comedy Volpone in 1605.