英文词源
- memory
- memory: [14] The Indo-European base *men-, *mon- ‘think’ has contributed an enormously wide range of words to the English lexicon, from comment to mind. One particular semantic family denotes ‘memory’, and goes back to memor ‘mindful’, a Latin descendant of *men-. From it was derived the noun memoria ‘memory’, which has given English memory, memorize [16], memorial [14], and, via modern French, memoir [16]; and the verb memorāre ‘remember’, from which English gets commemorate [16], memorable [15], and memorandum [16] (not forgetting its abbreviation memo [19]).
Also from memor comes remember; and three other Latin descendants of *men-, meminisse ‘remember’, reminiscī ‘remember’, and mentiō ‘remembrance’, gave English memento [15], reminiscence [16], and mention respectively. The distantly related remind carries the same idea.
=> commemorate, comment, mention, mind, remind, reminisce - memory (n.)
- mid-13c., "recollection (of someone or something); awareness, consciousness," also "fame, renown, reputation," from Anglo-French memorie (Old French memoire, 11c., "mind, memory, remembrance; memorial, record") and directly from Latin memoria "memory, remembrance, faculty of remembering," noun of quality from memor "mindful, remembering," from PIE root *(s)mer- (1) "to remember" (Sanskrit smarati "remembers," Avestan mimara "mindful;" Greek merimna "care, thought," mermeros "causing anxiety, mischievous, baneful;" Serbo-Croatian mariti "to care for;" Welsh marth "sadness, anxiety;" Old Norse Mimir, name of the giant who guards the Well of Wisdom; Old English gemimor "known," murnan "mourn, remember sorrowfully;" Dutch mijmeren "to ponder"). Meaning "faculty of remembering" is late 14c. in English.
I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. [Mark Twain, "Autobiography"]
Computer sense, "device which stores information," is from 1946. Related: Memories.
中文词源
memory（记忆）：希腊神话中的记忆女神莫涅莫绪涅
莫涅莫绪涅（Mnemosyne）是希腊神话中的记忆女神。她是天神乌拉诺斯和大地女神盖亚的女儿，十二泰坦神之一。她是宙斯的情人，和宙斯一起生了九个缪斯女神。她通常被描绘成一个支着下巴沉思的女子；有时她在画笔下表现为一个接近成年的女性，发饰多珍珠和宝石，用右手的两个前指持着耳垂。
莫涅莫绪涅的名字中包含词根mneme，意思是“记忆”。变体有：memo，memor，mnem，mnes。
memory： ['mem(ə)rɪ]n.记忆，记忆力
remember： [rɪ'membə]v.记得，记起
memo： ['meməʊ]n.备忘录
memoir： ['memwɑː] n.回忆录，自传
memorial： [mə'mɔːrɪəl]adj.纪念的，记忆的，追悼的n.纪念碑，纪念馆，纪念仪式，纪念物
commemorate： [kə'meməreɪt]vt.庆祝，纪念，成为……的纪念
amnesty： ['æmnɪstɪ]n.大赦，特赦vt.赦免。记：a否定+mnes记忆+ty名词后缀→不再记得，既往不咎→赦免
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memory：记忆，存储器
来自拉丁语memor,记忆的，提醒的，思考的，来自PIE*mer,记忆，词源同memorize.拼写me-为mor的韵律重复。引申词义内存，存储器等。
memory：记忆(力)；回忆；存储(器)
词根词缀： -memor-记忆 + -y名词词尾