μνημονικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “remembering”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós, “relative to”); μνήμων (mnḗmōn) from μνάομαι (mnáomai, “to be mindful, remember”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to mind; to think”)) + -μων (-mōn, suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mnɛː.mo.ni.kós/ → /mni.mo.niˈkos/ → /mni.mo.niˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mnɛː.mo.ni.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mne̝.mo.niˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mni.mo.niˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /mni.mo.niˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mni.mo.niˈkos/

Adjective

μνημονῐκός • (mnēmonikós) m (feminine μνημονῐκή, neuter μνημονῐκόν); first/second declension

1. pertaining to remembrance or memory, memorial

Inflection

First and second declension of μνημονῐκός; μνημονῐκή; μνημονῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		μνημονῐκός mnēmonikós	μνημονῐκή mnēmonikḗ	μνημονῐκόν mnēmonikón		μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ	μνημονῐκᾱ́ mnēmonikā́	μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ		μνημονῐκοί mnēmonikoí	μνημονῐκαί mnēmonikaí	μνημονῐκᾰ́ mnēmoniká
Genitive		μνημονῐκοῦ mnēmonikoû	μνημονῐκῆς mnēmonikês	μνημονῐκοῦ mnēmonikoû		μνημονῐκοῖν mnēmonikoîn	μνημονῐκαῖν mnēmonikaîn	μνημονῐκοῖν mnēmonikoîn		μνημονῐκῶν mnēmonikôn	μνημονῐκῶν mnēmonikôn	μνημονῐκῶν mnēmonikôn
Dative		μνημονῐκῷ mnēmonikôi	μνημονῐκῇ mnēmonikêi	μνημονῐκῷ mnēmonikôi		μνημονῐκοῖν mnēmonikoîn	μνημονῐκαῖν mnēmonikaîn	μνημονῐκοῖν mnēmonikoîn		μνημονῐκοῖς mnēmonikoîs	μνημονῐκαῖς mnēmonikaîs	μνημονῐκοῖς mnēmonikoîs
Accusative		μνημονῐκόν mnēmonikón	μνημονῐκήν mnēmonikḗn	μνημονῐκόν mnēmonikón		μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ	μνημονῐκᾱ́ mnēmonikā́	μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ		μνημονῐκούς mnēmonikoús	μνημονῐκᾱ́ς mnēmonikā́s	μνημονῐκᾰ́ mnēmoniká
Vocative		μνημονῐκέ mnēmoniké	μνημονῐκή mnēmonikḗ	μνημονῐκόν mnēmonikón		μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ	μνημονῐκᾱ́ mnēmonikā́	μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ		μνημονῐκοί mnēmonikoí	μνημονῐκαί mnēmonikaí	μνημονῐκᾰ́ mnēmoniká
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		μνημονῐκῶς mnēmonikôs				μνημονῐκώτερος mnēmonikṓteros				μνημονῐκώτᾰτος mnēmonikṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: mnēmonicus
  • → English: mnemonic
  • → Catalan: mnemònic
  • → Czech: mnemonický
  • → Dutch: mnemonisch
  • → Esperanto: mnemonika
  • → French: mnémonique
  • → German: mnemonisch
  • → Portuguese: mnemónico, mnemônico
  • → Spanish: mnemónico
• → Russian: мнемони́ческий (mnemoníčeskij)

Further reading

• “μνημονικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • memory idem, page 524.
  • tenacious idem, page 861.