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rememoror

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [rɛˈmɛ.mɔ.rɔr][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [reˈmɛː.mo.ror][1]

Forms

rememoror (present infinitive rememorārī, perfect active rememorātus sum); first conjugation, deponent[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin re- (“again”) + memoror (“to be mindful of, recall”),[2][3][1][4] and memoror comes from memor (“mindful”).[4] De Vaan treats the adjective with meminī “to remember”.[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is a Late Latin word,[3] first found in Tertullian, who uses it with an indirect question, to call to mind what something was.[2][6][7]

Semantic evolution

In the Vulgate it means to remember again or call to mind: the Letter to the Hebrews urges the reader to recall the former days, and a psalm says that they remembered that God was their helper.[3][2] Isidore of Seville also uses it,[3][8] and the early Latin Bible (the Itala) and the Passion of Perpetua have it with the genitive.[6] Ecclesiastical Latin keeps the sense “to remember”.[9] Etymonline derives Old French remembrer, the source of English remember, from it,[4] and Conte compares it with Italian rimembrare, which came through Old Occitan remembrar.[6]

Timeline

  • c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it with an indirect question.[2][7]
  • AD 390–406 – The Vulgate uses it in the Psalms and the Letter to the Hebrews.[3][7]
  • c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville uses it.[3][7]
  • mid-14th century – English remember appears, from Old French remembrer.[4]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To remember again, call to mind, recollect.[3][2][8]

Word family

  • rememorātiō

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b c d Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
  5. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  6. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  7. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  8. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  9. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson