Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1096.memoria on page 1096
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memoria memory
memoria is a Latin Noun that primarily means memory.
Definitions for memoria
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
memory, recollection
English derivatives:
memoir memorial memorize memorandum commemorate
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
The power or faculty of remembering, memory. (b) (personified or worshipped as a goddess).
- 2
(a) ~a tenere (or retinere), To be able to recall, remember; also, to keep in mind. (b) in ~a habere, to bear in mind, remember. (c) ~a repetere, to recall. (d) ~ae mandare, tradere, to commit to memory, memorize; (also, w. acc. and inf.) to keep in mind. (e) ~a (e, de ~a) exire, excidere, fugere (and sim), to be forgotten. (f) a ~a, (the title of an imperial official) remembrancer.
- 3
The action or fact of remembering or thinking about, remembrance. (b) in ~am redire, regredi, to recollect; in ~am inducere, redigere, (and sim), to call to mind, remind. (c) ~a dignus, deserving remembrance, memorable; ~ae causa, as a reminder, to remind oneself. (d) ~ae esse (w. dat.), to be remembered (by).
Sentences with memoria
Latin to English
Memoria dulcis aetātis mīlia hominum adiuvat.Compare The memory of a sweet period of life helps thousands of men.
Usus me genuit, mater peperit Memoria. Sophia vocant me Graii, vos Sapientieam. [Sella]Compare Practice was my father, memory my mother. The Greeks call me sophia, you call me wisdom.
Quam multa animalia hoc primum cognovimus saeculo, quam multa negotia ne hoc quidem! Multa venientis aevi populus ignota nobis sciet; multa saeculis tunc futuris cum memoria nostri exoleverit resevantur. Pusilla res mundus est, nisi in illo quod quaertat omnis mundus habeat.Compare How many animals we have come to know for the first time in our own days! Many, too, that are unknown to us, the people of a coming day will know. Many discoveries are reserved for the ages to be, when our memory shall have perished. The world would be a puny thing if future ages found in it nothing to investigate.
Nihil est ... tam insigne, nec tam ad diuturnitatem memoriae stabile, quam id, in quo aliquid offenderis.Compare Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something in which you have blundered.
Impensa monumenti supervacua est; memoria nostra durabit si vita meruimus.Compare A monument is a useless expense; our memory will endure if we have earned it by our life.
Declension table for memoria
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | memoria | memoriae |
| Gen. | memoriae | memoriārum |
| Dat. | memoriae | memoriīs |
| Acc. | memoriam | memoriās |
| Abl. | memoriā | memoriīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 100.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1096.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 122.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "memoria, memoriae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/memoria-memoriae.
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Wheelock's Latin
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