English

Noun

memoria ‎(uncountable)

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

See also

• dispositio
• elocutio
• inventio
• pronuntiatio

Asturian

Noun

memoria f ‎(plural memories)

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin memoria, from memori.

Noun

memoria f ‎(plural memorie)

1. memory, recall
2. recollection, remembrance
3. note
4. monograph

Synonyms

• ricordo

Antonyms

• oblio

Adverb

a memoria

1. by heart

Related terms

• memorabile
• memorandum
• memore
• memorevole
• memoriale
• memolizzare

Anagrams

• remiamo

Latin

Etymology

From memor ‎(“mindful, remembering”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈmo.ri.a/, [mɛˈmɔ.ri.a]

Noun

memoria f ‎(genitive memoriae); first declension

1. memory; the ability to remember
2. a remembrance, a thing remembered
3. (by extension) a time of remembrance

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• memoriālis
• memoriola
• memoriōsus
• memorō

Related terms

• memor
• memorābilis
• memorātor
• memoriter

Descendants

Adjective

memoria

1. nominative neuter plural of memor
2. accusative neuter plural of memor

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)
    
  • (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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

memoria f (plural memorias)

1. Obsolete spelling of memória

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meˈmo.ri.a]

Noun

memoria f

1. definite singular nominative and accusative form of memorie.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin memoria.

Noun

memoria f ‎(plural memorias)

1. memory