memoria

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See also: memória and memòria

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin memoria, from memor (mindful, remembering). Doublet of memoir and memory.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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memoria (uncountable)

  1. One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the discipline of memory and recall.
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Aragonese

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /meˈmoɾja/
  • Rhymes: -oɾja
  • Syllabification: me‧mo‧ria

Noun

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memoria f (plural memorias)

  1. memory

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Asturian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /meˈmoɾja/, [meˈmo.ɾja]
  • Rhymes: -oɾja
  • Hyphenation: me‧mo‧ria

Noun

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memoria f (plural memories)

  1. memory (ability to recall)
  2. memory (stored record)

Chavacano

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Etymology

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From Spanish memoria.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /meˈmoɾja/, [meˈmo.ɾja] (noun)
  • IPA(key): /memoˈɾja/, [me.moˈɾja] (verb)
  • Hyphenation: me‧mo‧ria

Noun

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memoria

  1. memory

Verb

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memoriá

  1. to memorize

Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese memoria, from Latin memoria (memory), from memor (mindful, remembering) +‎ -ia. Cognate with Portuguese memória.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /meˈmɔɾja/ [mẽˈmɔ.ɾjɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɾja
  • Hyphenation: me‧mor‧ia

Noun

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memoria f (plural memorias)

  1. (uncountable) memory (the ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.)
    Ten unha memoria prodixiosa: a súa cabeza rexistra todo.
    He has a prodigious memory; his head records everything.
    Disque os elefantes teñen moita memoria.
    They say elephants have a lot of memory.
    de memoriafrom memory
    memoria comprensivacomprehensive memory
    memoria fotográficaphotograpic memory
  2. a memory (a record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.)
    Synonym: de cor
    Nos últimos vinte anos, non hai memoria dun feito semellante a ese.
    In the last twenty years, there is no memory of a fact similar to that.
    Fixeron unha homenaxe para honrar a memoria do falecido.
    They did a tribute to honor the memory of the deceased.
    É incrible, ten unha memoria fotográfica.
    It’s amazing, he has a photographic memory.
    Falo de memoria, non o sei exactamente.
    I speak from memory; I don’t know exactly.
    Recitou os reis españois de memoria.
    He recited the Spanish kings by heart/memory.
    Non aprendas a lección de memoria.
    Don’t learn the lesson from memory.
  3. (computing) a memory (the part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).)
    Synonym: caché
    Mercaron un ordenador novo con moita memoria.
    They bought a new computer with a lot of memory.
    Unha máquina de escribir con memoria
    A typewriter with memory.
    memoria auxiliarauxiliary memory
    memoria centralcentral memory
    'memoria de acceso secuencialsequential access memory
    memoria principalmain memory
    posición de memoriamemory position
    memoria USBUSB memorystick
    memoria tobomemory cache
  4. a writing to inform someone about a matter of importance
    Synonym: informe
    Unha memoria dun proxecto de investigación.
    A report of a research project.
  5. (chiefly in the plural) a list of acts, works or economic results carried out by a company or corporation, included in a document, which is made available to partners or interested parties
  6. (chiefly in the plural) a list of expenses incurred in a business in an economic period
    Synonyms: tese de licenciatura, tese
    memoria de licenciaturadegree report
  7. (chiefly in the plural) a memoir (an autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author or a biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.)
    Synonym: biografía

References

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Interlingua

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Noun

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memoria (plural memorias)

  1. memory

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin memoria, from memori.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /meˈmɔ.rja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrja
  • Hyphenation: me‧mò‧ria
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Noun

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memoria f (plural memorie)

  1. (uncountable) memory, recall (the ability of the brain to record information)
    Antonym: oblio
    sapere a memoriato know by memory; to know by heart
  2. (countable) memory, recollection, remembrance (a record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use)
    Synonym: ricordo
  3. (computing, electronics) memory (the part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data)
  4. note
    prendere memoria dito take note of
  5. (in the plural) memoir, autobiography
  6. monograph
    Synonym: monografia
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Further reading

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  • memoria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From memor (mindful, remembering) +‎ -ia.

Noun

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memoria f (genitive memoriae); first declension

  1. memory; the ability to remember
    • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 1.1:
      Cōgitantī mihi saepenumerō, et memoriā vetera repetentī, perbeātī fuisse, Quīnte frāter, illī vidērī solent...
      When I often start thinking and recall my memories of the old days, my brother Quintus, those men of old usually seem to have been very blessed...
      (literally, “To me thinking often and seeking old things off memory, my brother Quintus, those men seem to have been very blessed”)
  2. a remembrance, a thing remembered
  3. (by extension) a time of remembrance
Declension
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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative memoria memoriae
Genitive memoriae memoriārum
Dative memoriae memoriīs
Accusative memoriam memoriās
Ablative memoriā memoriīs
Vocative memoria memoriae
Derived terms
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Descendants
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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memoria

  1. nominative/accusative neuter plural of memor

References

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  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • memoria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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)
    • (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)
    • (ambiguous) the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
    • (ambiguous) in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
    • (ambiguous) in our fathers' time: memoria patrum nostrorum
    • (ambiguous) to have a vivid recollection of a thing: recenti memoria tenere aliquid
    • (ambiguous) he had such an extraordinary memory that..: memoria tanta fuit, ut
    • (ambiguous) from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
    • (ambiguous) to keep in mind: memoria custodire
    • (ambiguous) vivid recollection: memoria et recordatio
    • (ambiguous) to show a thankful appreciation of a person's kindness: grata memoria aliquem prosequi
    • (ambiguous) the memory of this will never fade from my mind: numquam ex animo meo memoria illius rei discedet
    • (ambiguous) a thing has been vividly impressed on our[TR1] memory: aliquid in memoria nostra penitus insidet
    • (ambiguous) nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: semper memoria eius in (omnium) mentibus haerebit
    • (ambiguous) a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo
    • (ambiguous) the recollection of a thing has been entirely lost: memoria alicuius rei excidit, abiit, abolevit
    • (ambiguous) to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: memoria alicuius rei obscuratur, obliteratur, evanescit
    • (ambiguous) to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
    • (ambiguous) examples taken from Roman (Greek) history: exempla a rerum Romanarum (Graecarum) memoria petita
    • (ambiguous) Roman history (as tradition): memoria rerum Romanarum
    • (ambiguous) tradition, history tells us: memoriae traditum est, memoriae (memoria) proditum est (without nobis)
    • (ambiguous) a twofold tradition prevails on this subject: duplex est memoria de aliqua re
    • (ambiguous) ancient history: rerum veterum memoria
    • (ambiguous) ancient history: memoria vetus (Or. 34. 120)
    • (ambiguous) ancient history: antiquitatis memoria
    • (ambiguous) modern history: recentioris aetatis memoria
    • (ambiguous) the history of our own times; contemporary history: memoria huius aetatis (horum temporum)
    • (ambiguous) the history of our own times; contemporary history: nostra memoria (Cael. 18. 43)
    • (ambiguous) universal history: omnis memoria, omnis memoria aetatum, temporum, civitatum or omnium rerum, gentium, temporum, saeculorum memoria
    • (ambiguous) historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria
    • (ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
  • memoria in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

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memoria f (plural memorias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of memória.

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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memoria f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of memorie

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin memoria.

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Noun

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memoria f (plural memorias)

  1. memory (the ability of the brain to record information)
  2. report, document
  3. (computing) memory (the part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data)

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