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Memoria
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Me-mo′ri-a
,Noun.
[L.]
Memory.
Memoria technica
, technical memory; a contrivance for aiding the memory.
Definition 2024
memoria
memoria
English
Noun
memoria (uncountable)
See also
Italian
Etymology
From Latin memoria, from memori.
Noun
memoria f (plural memorie)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Adverb
a memoria
Related terms
- memorabile
- memorandum
- memore
- memorevole
- memoriale
- memolizzare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From memor (“mindful, remembering”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈmo.ri.a/, [mɛˈmɔ.ri.a]
Noun
memoria f (genitive memoriae); first declension
- memory; the ability to remember
- a remembrance, a thing remembered
- (by extension) a time of remembrance
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | memoria | memoriae |
genitive | memoriae | memoriārum |
dative | memoriae | memoriīs |
accusative | memoriam | memoriās |
ablative | memoriā | memoriīs |
vocative | memoria | memoriae |
Derived terms
- memoriālis
- memoriola
- memoriōsus
- memorō
Related terms
Descendants
Adjective
memoria
References
- memoria in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- memoria in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- MEMORIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “memoria”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae
- to remember a thing perfectly: memoriam alicuius rei tenere
- to impress on the memory: memoriae mandare aliquid
- to recall a thing to one's recollection: memoriam alicuius rei renovare, revocare (redintegrare)
- to recall to mind a thing or person: memoriam alicuius rei repetere
- to recall to mind a thing or person: in memoriam alicuius redire
- to recall a thing to a person's mind: in memoriam alicuius redigere, reducere aliquid (not revocare)
- to picture to oneself again: memoriam alicuius rei repraesentare (opp. memoriam alicuius rei deponere, abicere)
- to retain the recollection of a thing: memoriam alicuius rei conservare, retinere
- to show an affectionate regard for a person's memory: memoriam alicuius pie inviolateque servare
- to retain a (most) pleasant impression of a person: gratam (gratissimam) alicuius memoriam retinere
- nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1)
- to immortalise one's name: memoriam nominis sui immortalitati tradere, mandare, commendare
- within the memory of man: post hominum memoriam
- in memory of..: memoriae causa, ad (not in) memoriam (Brut. 16. 62)
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(ambiguous) tradition, history tells us: memoriae traditum est, memoriae (memoria) proditum est (without nobis)
- to consult history: memoriam annalium or temporum replicare
- to be well versed in Roman history: memoriam rerum gestarum (rerum Romanarum) tenere
- to proclaim a general amnesty: omnem memoriam discordiarum oblivione sempiterna delere (Phil. 1. 1. 1)
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(ambiguous) the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
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(ambiguous) in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
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(ambiguous) in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum
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(ambiguous) to have a vivid recollection of a thing: recenti memoria tenere aliquid
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(ambiguous) he had such an extraordinary memory that..: memoria tanta fuit, ut
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(ambiguous) from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
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(ambiguous) to keep in mind: memoria custodire
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(ambiguous) vivid recollection: memoria et recordatio
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(ambiguous) to show a thankful appreciation of a person's kindness: grata memoria aliquem prosequi
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(ambiguous) the memory of this will never fade from my mind: numquam ex animo meo memoria illius rei discedet
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(ambiguous) a thing has been vividly impressed on our[TR1] memory: aliquid in memoria nostra penitus insidet
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(ambiguous) nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: semper memoria eius in (omnium) mentibus haerebit
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(ambiguous) a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo
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(ambiguous) the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit
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(ambiguous) to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
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(ambiguous) to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
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(ambiguous) examples taken from Roman (Greek) history: exempla a rerum Romanarum (Graecarum) memoria petita
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(ambiguous) Roman history (as tradition): memoria rerum Romanarum
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(ambiguous) tradition, history tells us: memoriae traditum est, memoriae (memoria) proditum est (without nobis)
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(ambiguous) a twofold tradition prevails on this subject: duplex est memoria de aliqua re
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(ambiguous) ancient history: rerum veterum memoria
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(ambiguous) ancient history: memoria vetus (Or. 34. 120)
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(ambiguous) ancient history: antiquitatis memoria
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(ambiguous) modern history: recentioris aetatis memoria
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(ambiguous) the history of our own times; contemporary history: memoria huius aetatis (horum temporum)
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(ambiguous) the history of our own times; contemporary history: nostra memoria (Cael. 18. 43)
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(ambiguous) universal history: omnis memoria, omnis memoria aetatum, temporum, civitatum or omnium rerum, gentium, temporum, saeculorum memoria
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(ambiguous) historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria
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(ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
- our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae
- memoria in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [meˈmo.ri.a]
Noun
memoria f
- definite singular nominative and accusative form of memorie.