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Mem
mem
mem
English
Alternative forms
Noun
mem (plural mems)
- The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Translations
Anagrams
Ido
Etymology
From French même, from Old French mesme, earlier meïsme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus, from Latin -met + ipse + -issimus. Cognates include Spanish mismo, Portuguese mesmo and Italian medesimo.
Adverb
mem
Swedish
Etymology
From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːm/
Noun
mem c
- a meme (unit of cultural information)
Declension
Inflection of mem | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mem | memen | memer | memerna |
Genitive | mems | memens | memers | memernas |
Related terms
- memetik
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- ("to measure"). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *mēdye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor), or alternatively to *meh₁-ye/o- from *meh₁- (“to measure”) (whence Latin mētior). Compare Tocharian A maim.
Noun
mem