memory

/ˈmeməi/MEH-mur-ee
/ˈmɛmɚi/MEH-mur-ee

Meaningmindfulness

Common meaning: the power to remember

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√SMAR‘remember, record’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 447, p. 746 · scan
  2. Latinmemor; meminī‘mindful’
  3. Frenchform
  4. Middle Englishmemoriesource
  5. Englishmemory‘the power to remember’ · today

memor also in: memorialmemorisememorablemementocommemorate

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin memor; meminī ‘mindful; to remember’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry memor, p. 1130 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

commemoratemementomemorablememorialmemorise

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