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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [mɛˈmɔ.ri.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [meˈmɔː.ri.a]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''memoria''' ''f'' (genitive memoriae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|memor|-ia|t1=mindful]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary derives ''memor'' from a reduplicated form of [[ine-pro|*(s)mer-|t=to remember]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Plautus, whose character asks to be helped when his memory fails.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the faculty of remembering, memory, as Cicero's praise of Hortensius' great memory, and ''memoriā tenēre'' “to remember”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant the act of remembering, remembrance, and what is remembered, a recollection.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Christian and Medieval Latin it meant commemoration in prayer, a mass for the dead, a martyr's shrine, and a written record or document.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(eLexicon Polonorum)^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian and Spanish ''memoria'' and French ''mémoire''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|memory]] came from it in the late 13th century, and [[en|memoir]] in the early 15th.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a failing memory.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero praises Hortensius' memory.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 13th century – English ''memory'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # [[m|en|Memory]], the faculty of remembering.^(OLD 2012)
+ # [[m|en|Remembrance]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # A recollection.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|Commemoration]]; a mass for the dead.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A written record.^(eLexicon Polonorum)^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[memoralis]]
+ * [[memoriālis]]
+ * [[memoriola]]
+ * [[memoriōsus]]
+ * [[memorō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[memor]]
+ * [[memorābilis]]
+ * [[memorātor]]
+ * [[memoriter]]
+ * [[meminī]]
+ * [[en|memory]]
+ * [[en|memoir]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}