memor
Appearance
See also: Memor
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- Some refer it to some reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to think, remember”). Similar to Old English ġemimor.
- Some refer it to Proto-Italic *memnos, Proto-Indo-European *me-mn-os-, a reduplicated form of *men- (“to think”), although the declension was changed from a sibilant stem to a rhotic stem.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈme.mor/, [ˈmɛmɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.mor/, [ˈmɛːmor]
Adjective
[edit]memor (genitive memoris, comparative memorior, superlative memorissimus, adverb memoriter); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
- mindful, remembering (+ genitive)
- heedful, recalling, suggesting
- that has a good memory
- prudent, provident, careful, cautious
Declension
[edit]Third-declension one-termination adjective.
singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | memor | memorēs | memoria | ||
genitive | memoris | memorium | |||
dative | memorī | memoribus | |||
accusative | memorem | memor | memorēs | memoria | |
ablative | memorī | memoribus | |||
vocative | memor | memorēs | memoria |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “meminī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 371-372
- “memor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “memor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- memor in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- memor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to remember a thing perfectly: memoriā tenere aliquid
- to have a good memory: memoriā (multum) valere (opp. memoriā vacillare)
- to make a slip of the memory: memoriā labi
- (ambiguous) the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
- (ambiguous) in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
- (ambiguous) in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum
- (ambiguous) to have a vivid recollection of a thing: recenti memoria tenere aliquid
- (ambiguous) to have a good memory: memorem esse (opp. obliviosum esse)
- (ambiguous) he had such an extraordinary memory that..: memoria tanta fuit, ut
- (ambiguous) from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
- (ambiguous) to keep in mind: memoria custodire
- (ambiguous) vivid recollection: memoria et recordatio
- (ambiguous) to show a thankful appreciation of a person's kindness: grata memoria aliquem prosequi
- (ambiguous) the memory of this will never fade from my mind: numquam ex animo meo memoria illius rei discedet
- (ambiguous) a thing has been vividly impressed on our[TR1] memory: aliquid in memoria nostra penitus insidet
- (ambiguous) nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: semper memoria eius in (omnium) mentibus haerebit
- (ambiguous) a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo
- (ambiguous) the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit
- (ambiguous) to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
- (ambiguous) to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
- (ambiguous) examples taken from Roman (Greek) history: exempla a rerum Romanarum (Graecarum) memoria petita
- (ambiguous) Roman history (as tradition): memoria rerum Romanarum
- (ambiguous) tradition, history tells us: memoriae traditum est, memoriae (memoria) proditum est (without nobis)
- (ambiguous) a twofold tradition prevails on this subject: duplex est memoria de aliqua re
- (ambiguous) ancient history: rerum veterum memoria
- (ambiguous) ancient history: memoria vetus (Or. 34. 120)
- (ambiguous) ancient history: antiquitatis memoria
- (ambiguous) modern history: recentioris aetatis memoria
- (ambiguous) the history of our own times; contemporary history: memoria huius aetatis (horum temporum)
- (ambiguous) the history of our own times; contemporary history: nostra memoria (Cael. 18. 43)
- (ambiguous) universal history: omnis memoria, omnis memoria aetatum, temporum, civitatum or omnium rerum, gentium, temporum, saeculorum memoria
- (ambiguous) historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria
- (ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
- to remember a thing perfectly: memoriā tenere aliquid
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives of one termination
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook