memorate

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Latin memorātus, past participle of memorāre (to bring to remembrance, mention, recount), from memor (remembering); see memory.

Noun

[edit]

memorate (plural memorates)

  1. (folklore) an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.
    • 1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232:
      An undemonstrable legend is no legend at all. One must postulate that every fabulate is based on a memorate.

Verb

[edit]

memorate (third-person singular simple present memorates, present participle memorating, simple past and past participle memorated)

  1. (obsolete) to commemorate
  2. (obsolete) to memorize
[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

Esperanto

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adverb

[edit]

memorate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of memori

Ido

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

memorate

  1. adverbial present passive participle of memorar

Interlingua

[edit]

Participle

[edit]

memorate

  1. past participle of memorar

Latin

[edit]

Participle

[edit]

memorāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of memorātus

Verb

[edit]

memorāte

  1. imperative second-person plural of memoro

Spanish

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

memorate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of memorar combined with te