# memor
## Latin
### Etymology

* 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈme.mor/, [ˈmɛmɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈme.mor/, [ˈmɛːmor]

### Adjective

memor (genitive memoris, comparative memorior, superlative memorissimus, adverb memoriter); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
* mindful, remembering (+ genitive)
    Tuōrum verbōrum memor sum.I'm mindful of your words.
* heedful, recalling, suggesting
* that has a good memory
* prudent, provident, careful, cautious

#### Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

#### Derived terms

* immemor
* memoria
* memoriter
* memorō
* memoror

#### Related terms

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

#### Descendants

* Italian: memore
* Sicilian: mèmuri

### References

* ↑ 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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* memor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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)