German

Noun

Mem n ‎(genitive Mems, plural Meme)

1. meme

Related terms

• Memetik, Gedankeneinheit

English

Alternative forms

• meem
• mim

Noun

mem ‎(plural mems)

1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Anagrams

• EMM

Catalan

Noun

mem m ‎(plural mems)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)

Czech

Noun

mem m

1. meme

Related terms

• memetika f

Esperanto

Particle

mem

1. -self, -selves
   • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, trans. Odd Tangerud Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj,

     KROGSTAD. Vere ne? Ŝajnas al mi, ke vi mem ĵus diris —

     KROGSTAD. Truly not? It seems to me, that you yourself just said —

Derived terms

• memportreto

Pronoun

mem

1. itself

   La koloro de la flago mem estis blanka sen surpreso, ruĝa aŭ nigra, blanka ĝenerale signifis la persekutadon, ĉe kiu la viktimo povis kapitulaci.‎

   The color of the flag itself was white without foreground image, red or black; white generally denoted persecution, at which the victim could surrender.

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

1. even, still, really

Lojban

Rafsi

mem

1. rafsi of mei.

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

1. a meme (unit of cultural information)

Declension

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

1. thought, thinking

Volapük

Noun

mem ‎(plural mems)

1. memory

Declension

West Frisian

Noun

mem c ‎(plural memmen, diminutive memke)

1. mother