commemoratio Latin · revision 32417

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la memor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔm.mɛ.mɔˈraː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kom.me.moˈrat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commemorātiō''' ''f'' (genitive commemorātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conmemorātiō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|commemorō|-tiō|t1=to call to mind, mention]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|commemorō]] is formed from [[m|la|memor|t=mindful]], which de Vaan lists among the derivatives of [[m|la|meminī|t=to remember]], from the perfect stem [[itc-pro|*me-mon-]], [[ine-pro|*me-mon-]]; older etymologies derived [[m|la|memor]] from [[ine-pro|*(s)mer-|t=to remind]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence has it first, in the ''Andria'': “this reminder of yours is like a reproach for a kindness forgotten”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first the calling of something to another's mind, a reminder.^(OLD 2012) It is also remembrance or memory, as when Cicero hopes that the memory of his name will not end with his life, and a mention or citation, as in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it of a record, saying that many things last longer in record than they could by nature.^(OLD 2012) The TLL finds it often in Cicero, seven times in Livy and five in Valerius Maximus, but only once or twice in most other writers.^(TLL) In Medieval Latin it is also a commemoration, a mass for the dead, a written memoir, a memorandum, and a kind of charter.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it remembrance, commemoration, mention.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a reminder that sounds like a reproach.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the memory of his name.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|commemoration]] is borrowed through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A calling to mind, [[m|en|reminder]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|remembrance|alt=Remembrance]], memory.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|mention]], citation; a record.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|commemoration]]; a mass for the dead.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Written recollections; a memorandum; a charter.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[commemoro|alt=commemorō]]

+ * [[memor]]

+ * [[en|commemoration]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}