# memoria
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin memoria, from memor (“mindful, remembering”). Doublet of memoir and memory.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) enPR: mə-môrʹē-ə, IPA: /məˈmɔɹi.ə/
* Rhymes: -ɔːɹiə
* Hyphenation: me‧mo‧ri‧a

### Noun

memoria (uncountable)
* One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the discipline of memory and recall.

#### Related terms

* pro memoria

#### See also

* dispositio
* elocutio
* inventio
* pronuntiatio

## Aragonese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meˈmoɾja/
* Rhymes: -oɾja
* Syllabification: me‧mo‧ria

### Noun

memoria f (plural memorias)
* memory

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “memoria”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meˈmoɾja/ [meˈmo.ɾja]
* Rhymes: -oɾja
* Syllabification: me‧mo‧ria

### Noun

memoria f (plural memories)
* memory (ability to recall)
* memory (stored record)

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish memoria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meˈmoɾja/, [meˈmo.ɾja] (noun)
* IPA: /memoˈɾja/, [me.moˈɾja] (verb)
* Hyphenation: me‧mo‧ria

### Noun

memoria
* memory

### Verb

memoriá
* to memorize

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* memória (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese memoria, from Latin memoria (“memory”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”) +‎ -ia. Cognate with Portuguese memória.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meˈmɔɾja/ [mẽˈmɔ.ɾjɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔɾja
* Hyphenation: me‧mor‧ia

### Noun

memoria f (plural memorias)
* (uncountable) memory (the ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.)
    de memoria ― from memory
    memoria comprensiva ― comprehensive memory
    memoria fotográfica ― photograpic memory
    Ten unha memoria prodixiosa: a súa cabeza rexistra todo.He has a prodigious memory; his head records everything.
    Disque os elefantes teñen moita memoria.They say elephants have a lot of memory.
* a memory (a record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.)
    Synonym: de cor
    Nos últimos vinte anos, non hai memoria dun feito semellante a ese.In the last twenty years, there is no memory of a fact similar to that.
    Fixeron unha homenaxe para honrar a memoria do falecido.They did a tribute to honor the memory of the deceased.
    É incrible, ten unha memoria fotográfica.It’s amazing, he has a photographic memory.
    Falo de memoria, non o sei exactamente.I speak from memory; I don’t know exactly.
    Recitou os reis españois de memoria.He recited the Spanish kings by heart/memory.
    Non aprendas a lección de memoria.Don’t learn the lesson from memory.
* (computing) a memory (the part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).)
    Synonym: caché
    memoria auxiliar ― auxiliary memory
    memoria central ― central memory
    'memoria de acceso secuencial ― sequential access memory
    memoria principal ― main memory
    posición de memoria ― memory position
    memoria USB ― USB memorystick
    memoria tobo ― memory cache
    Mercaron un ordenador novo con moita memoria.They bought a new computer with a lot of memory.
    Unha máquina de escribir con memoriaA typewriter with memory.
* a writing to inform someone about a matter of importance
    Synonym: informe
    Unha memoria dun proxecto de investigación.A report of a research project.
* (chiefly in the plural) a list of acts, works or economic results carried out by a company or corporation, included in a document, which is made available to partners or interested parties
* (chiefly in the plural) a list of expenses incurred in a business in an economic period
    Synonyms: tese de licenciatura, tese
    memoria de licenciatura ― degree report
* (chiefly in the plural) a memoir (an autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author or a biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.)
    Synonym: biografía

### References

* “memoria” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
* “memoria”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Interlingua
### Noun

memoria (plural memorias)
* memory

## Italian
### Etymology

Derived from Latin memoria, from memori.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meˈmɔ.rja/
* Rhymes: -ɔrja
* Hyphenation: me‧mò‧ria
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

memoria f (plural memorie)
* (uncountable) memory, recall (the ability of the brain to record information)
    Antonym: oblio
    sapere a memoria ― to know by memory; to know by heart
* (countable) memory, recollection, remembrance (a record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use)
    Synonym: ricordo
* (computing, electronics) memory (the part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data)
* note
    prendere memoria di ― to take note of
* (in the plural) memoir, autobiography
* monograph
    Synonym: monografia

#### Related terms

* memorabile
* memorandum
* memore
* memorevole
* memoriale
* memorizzare

### Further reading

* memoria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* remiamo

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish memoria (“memory”), from Latin memoria.

### Noun

memoria f (Hebrew spelling מימורייה)
* memory (the ability of the brain to record information; the ability to remember)
** 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎, Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 11:En mi corason esta tu memoria santa Dia i noce de mi no se apartaIn my heart lies your holy memory, day and night it separates not from me.

### References

* ↑ “memoria”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /meˈmo.ri.a/, [mɛˈmɔriä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /meˈmo.ri.a/, [meˈmɔːriä]

### Etymology 1

From memor (“mindful, remembering”) +‎ -ia.

#### Noun

memoria f (genitive memoriae); first declension
* memory; the ability to remember
** 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 1.1:Cōgitantī mihi saepenumerō, et memoriā vetera repetentī, perbeātī fuisse, Quīnte frāter, illī vidērī solent...When I often start thinking and recall my memories of the old days, my brother Quintus, those men of old usually seem to have been very blessed...(literally, “To me thinking often and seeking old things off memory, my brother Quintus, those men seem to have been very blessed”)
* a remembrance, a thing remembered
* (by extension) a time of remembrance

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* memoriālis
* memoriola
* memoriōsus
* memorō

##### Related terms

* memor
* memorābilis
* memorātor
* memoriter

##### Descendants

* Catalan: memòria
* Italian: memoria
* Old French: memorie, memoire
** → English: memory
** French: mémoire
*** Haitian Creole: memwa
*** → English: memoir
* Portuguese: memória
* Romanian: memorie
* Sicilian: mimòria, mimoria
* Spanish: memoria
* → Old Irish: mebuir
** Middle Irish: mebair, mebar, memor
*** Irish: meabhair
*** Scottish Gaelic: meomhair
* → Proto-Brythonic: *meβ̃ör
** Welsh: myfyr

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

memoria
* nominative/accusative neuter plural of memor

### References

* “memoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “memoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "memoria", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* memoria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae to remember a thing perfectly: memoriam alicuius rei tenere to impress on the memory: memoriae mandare aliquid to recall a thing to one's recollection: memoriam alicuius rei renovare, revocare (redintegrare) to recall to mind a thing or person: memoriam alicuius rei repetere to recall to mind a thing or person: in memoriam alicuius redire to recall a thing to a person's mind: in memoriam alicuius redigere, reducere aliquid (not revocare) to picture to oneself again: memoriam alicuius rei repraesentare (opp. memoriam alicuius rei deponere, abicere) to retain the recollection of a thing: memoriam alicuius rei conservare, retinere to show an affectionate regard for a person's memory: memoriam alicuius pie inviolateque servare to retain a (most) pleasant impression of a person: gratam (gratissimam) alicuius memoriam retinere nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1) to immortalise one's name: memoriam nominis sui immortalitati tradere, mandare, commendare within the memory of man: post hominum memoriam in memory of..: memoriae causa, ad (not in) memoriam (Brut. 16. 62) (ambiguous) tradition, history tells us: memoriae traditum est, memoriae (memoria) proditum est (without nobis) to consult history: memoriam annalium or temporum replicare to be well versed in Roman history: memoriam rerum gestarum (rerum Romanarum) tenere to proclaim a general amnesty: omnem memoriam discordiarum oblivione sempiterna delere (Phil. 1. 1. 1) (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) 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)
* memoria in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* memorea

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin memoria.

### Noun

memoria f
* memory

#### Descendants

* Galician: memoria, memória
* Portuguese: memória

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “memoria”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin memoria.

### Noun

memoria f (plural memorias)
* memory
** ca. 1230, Del Sacrificio de la Misa‎:Abrán, nuestro avuelo de ondrada memoria, quando de la fazienda tornava con victoria, […]Abraham, our grandfather of honourable memory, when he came back from the battle with victory

#### Descendants

* Ladino: memoria, מימורייה
* Spanish: memoria

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “memoria”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 334

## Portuguese
### Noun

memoria f (plural memorias)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of memória.

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [meˈmo.ri.a]

### Noun

memoria f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of memorie

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish memoria (“memory”), from Latin memoria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meˈmoɾja/ [meˈmo.ɾja]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾja
* Syllabification: me‧mo‧ria

### Noun

memoria f (plural memorias)
* memory (the ability of the brain to record information)
* report, document
* (computing) memory (the part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data)

#### Derived terms

* de memoria
* hacer memoria
* lápiz de memoria
* libro de memoria
* memorativo
* memoria de elefante
* memoria de pollo
* memoria USB
* memorión
* memorioso
* memorista
* memorístico
* memoroso
* recorrer la memoria
* reducir a la memoria
* refrescar la memoria
* renovar la memoria
* tarjeta de memoria
* tener en memoria
* traer a la memoria

#### Related terms

* desmemoria

#### See also

* recuerdo

### Further reading

* “memoria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10