memor Latin · revision 5154

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *(s)mer-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈmɛ.mɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmɛː.mor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''memor''' (genitive memoris, comparative memorior, superlative memorissimus, adverb memoriter); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is usually taken as a reduplicated form of [[ine-pro|*(s)mer-|t=to think of, remember]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) Cognate with [[sa|स्मरति|tr=smárati|t=remembers]], [[grc|μέρμερος|tr=mérmeros|t=anxious]], [[grc|μέριμνα|tr=mérimna|t=care]] and [[ang|ġemimor|t=known]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Some instead derive it from a reduplicated [[ine-pro|*me-mn-os-]], from *men- “to think”, with a change of stem.^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short stress that it is not formed from [[meminī]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Plautus first.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Plautus plays on the word: whoever reminds a mindful man of what he remembers makes him forgetful.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant having something in mind, mindful, and especially mindful of an obligation, grateful.^(OLD 2012) It also described a person with a good memory or old enough to remember something, and feelings that do not forget, as in Virgil's “the unforgetting anger of cruel Juno”.^(OLD 2012) Marks and records that preserve a memory were ''memor'' as well.^(OLD 2012) It also meant careful or prudent.^(Wiktionary)

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+ In medieval British Latin it kept the sense mindful, not forgetting.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a mindful man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of gratitude.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil speaks of Juno's unforgetting anger.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Mindful, remembering (with genitive).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Mindful of obligations, [[m|en|grateful]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Having a good [[m|en|memory]]; old enough to remember.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of feelings)'' Unforgetting.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of marks, records)'' [[m|en|commemorative]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Careful, prudent.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[memoria]]

+ * [[immemor]]

+ * [[memoriter]]

+ * [[memorō]]

+ * [[memoror]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[memorābilis]]

+ * [[memorāculum]]

+ * [[memorāliter]]

+ * [[memorālius]]

+ * [[memorandus]]

+ * [[memorātiō]]

+ * [[memorātor]]

+ * [[memorātrīx]]

+ * [[memorātus]]

+ * [[memoriāle]]

+ * [[meminī]]

+ * [[en|memory]]

+ * [[en|remember]]

+ * [[en|memorial]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}