memor

See also: Memor

Latin

Etymology

• Some refer it to some reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to think, remember”). Similar to Old English mimor.
• 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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.mor/, [ˈmɛmɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.mor/, [ˈmɛːmor]

Adjective

memor (genitive memoris, comparative memorior, superlative memorissimus, adverb memoriter); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

1. mindful, remembering (+ genitive)

   alicuius/alicuius rei memor ― remember someone/something

2. heedful, recalling, suggesting
3. that has a good memory
4. prudent, provident, careful, cautious

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	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

• immemor
• memoria
• memoriter
• memoror
• memorō

 

Related terms

• memorandus
• memoriola
• memoriāle
• memoriālis
• memoriōse
• memoriōsus
• memorābile
• memorābilis
• memorāculum
• memorāliter
• memorālius
• memorātiō
• memorātor
• memorātrīx
• memorātus

 

Descendants

• Italian: memore
• Sicilian: mèmuri

References

• “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)