memorialis Latin · revision 9116

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Suetonius|origins=la memor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [mɛ.mɔ.riˈaː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [me.mo.riˈaː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''memoriālis''' (neuter memoriāle); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[memoria]] “memory” with the suffix [[-ālis]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Suetonius, of a book of memoranda.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Suetonius c. 75–c. 150 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Liber memoriālis'' was a book of records, a memorandum book, as in Suetonius; an inscription has ''cubiculum memoriāle'', a memorial chamber.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Justinian's Code ''memoriālis'' was a historiographer.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin a ''liber memoriālis'' was an obituary book.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it of memory, and of the part of the brain that holds memory.^(DMLBS) Through Old French ''memorial'' it gave [[en|memorial]] in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 528–534 AD – Justinian's Code uses it of a historiographer.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''memorial'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of memory, ''liber memoriālis'', a memorandum book.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|memorial|alt=Memorial]], commemorative.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A historiographer.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[memoriāle]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[memoria]]

+ * [[memor]]

+ * [[en|memorial]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}