# mnemonic
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /nɪˈmɒnɪk/, /nə-/
* (General American) IPA: /nəˈmɑnɪk/, /ni-/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Homophone: pneumonic (one pronunciation)
* Rhymes: -ɒnɪk
* Hyphenation: mne‧mon‧ic

### Etymology 1

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).
* French mnémonique (adjective)
* German mnemonisch
* Italian mnemonico
* Portuguese mnemónica

#### Adjective

mnemonic (not comparable)
* 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

##### Alternative forms

* mnemonick (obsolete, rare)

##### Derived terms

* anamonic
* antimnemonic
* metamnemonic
* mnemonician
* mnemonist
* mnemonize
* non-mnemonic
* promnemonic

##### Related terms

* anamnestic
* mneme
* mnemenic
* mnemic
* mnemon
* mnemonical
* mnemonicalist (obsolete, rare)
* mnemonically
* mnemonicon
* Mnemosyne
* mnemotechnic
* mnemotechnical
* mnemotechnically
* mnemotechnist
* mnemotechny
* mnestic

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

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.
* French mnémonique (noun)
* German Mnemonik
* Italian mnemonica
* Portuguese mnemónico

#### Noun

mnemonic (plural mnemonics)
* 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

* anamonic
* memory palace
* mimetic

##### Derived terms

* mnemonics
* neuro-mnemonic

##### See also

* 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

* 1 2 “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

* mnemonic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “mnemonic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “mnemonic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.