mnemonic
English
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /nɪˈmɒnɪk/, /nə-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /nəˈmɑnɪk/, /ni-/
Audio (General American): (file) - Homophone: pneumonic (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -ɒnɪk
- Hyphenation: mne‧mon‧ic
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin mnemonicus or its etymon Ancient Greek μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, “pertaining to memory or remembrance, memorial”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Mνημονῐκός (Mnēmonĭkós) is derived from μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “mindful, remembering”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives); while μνήμων (mnḗmōn) is from μνάομαι (mnáomai, “to be mindful, remember”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to mind; to think”)) + -μων (-mōn, suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns).[1]
Cognates
- French mnémonique (adjective)
- German mnemonisch
- Italian mnemonico
- Portuguese mnemónica
Adjective
[edit]mnemonic (not comparable)
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- Especially of a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.: intended to help in remembering.
- Synonyms: anamnestic, (archaic) memorial, (archaic) mnemonical
- Antonym: antimnemonic
- Of or relating to mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”).
- Of or relating to memory.
- Synonym: mnestic
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]especially of a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.: intended to help in remembering
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of or relating to mnemonics
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of or relating to memory
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun sense 1 (“something used to help in remembering a thing”) is borrowed from Latin mnēmonicum (“something used to help in remembering a thing”), from Ancient Greek μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “something used to help in remembering a thing”), a noun use of the neuter form of μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, adjective): see etymology 1. Noun sense 3 (“synonym of mnemonics”) is borrowed from Late Latin mnemonica, a noun use of the feminine form of mnemonicus: see etymology 1.[1]
Cognates
Noun
[edit]mnemonic (plural mnemonics)
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“Richard of York gave battle in vain” and “Roy G. Biv” are mnemonics to aid in remembering the colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. |
- Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid.
- Synonyms: aide-mémoire, (rare) mnemonicon
- 2003, Alex Kimbell, chapter 3, in The Unbridgeable Divide: A Love Story, Market Harborough, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, section I, page 54:
- Mr Avery was a great believer in mnemonics; he had one for every possible aspect of flying – which was as good a way as any for student pilots to familiarise themselves with their new environment, but unless used on a daily basis could also be dangerous, for there were so many of them.
- (computing) The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.
- (obsolete) Synonym of mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”).
Hyponyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]something used to help in remembering a thing
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human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands
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See also
[edit]- crib (“collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort”)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “mnemonic, n. and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “mnemonic, n. and adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
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mnemonic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mnemonic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “mnemonic” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “mnemonic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French mnémonique.
Noun
[edit]mnemonic m or n (feminine singular mnemonică, masculine plural mnemonici, feminine/neuter plural mnemonice)
Declension
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
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indefinite | mnemonic | mnemonică | mnemonici | mnemonice | |||
| definite | mnemonicul | mnemonica | mnemonicii | mnemonicele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | mnemonic | mnemonice | mnemonici | mnemonice | |||
| definite | mnemonicului | mnemonicei | mnemonicilor | mnemonicelor | ||||
References
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