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memoro

memoro

to bring to remembrance, remind of, to mention, recount, relate, speak about

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Densest 12 of 162 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mĕmŏro — Lewis & Short

mĕmŏro, āvi, ātum (archaic

I inf. pass. memorarier, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 99), 1, v. a. memor, to bring to remembrance, remind of, to mention, recount, relate, speak about or of, say, tell (class.).
(a) With acc.: memorare mores mulierum, Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 50: nomen memora tuom mihi, id. Trin. 4, 2, 41: deos absentis testis memoras, callest on, id. Merc. 3, 4, 42: superbiam, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 47, § 122: causas alicui, Verg. A. 1, 8: antequam arma inciperent, misere legatos amicitiam obsequiumque memoraturos, Tac. A. 4, 46; 2, 58: patriam rhombi, Juv. 4, 129.—Pass.: quid illa pote pejus muliere memorarier, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 99: ubi ea, quae dico, gesta esse memorantur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107: cujus conditor Hercules memorabatur, was said to have been, was remembered as, Sall. J. 89, 4: memorari exempla, Tac. A. 11, 23.—
(b) With de: de naturā nimis obscure memoravit, Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 15.—
(g) With acc. and inf.: quem infestum ac odiosum sibi esse, memorabat, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 65: Herculem in eo loco boves abegisse memorant, Liv. 1, 7, 4: Mithridates, quem imperitasse Armeniis memoravi, Tac. A. 11, 8 init.: Palamedem memorant sedecim litterarum formas repperisse, id. ib. 11, 14.—
(d) With a rel.-clause: musa, velim memores, quo patre natus uterque Contulerit lites, Hor. S. 1, 5, 53. —(e) With sic: sic memorat, Verg. A. 1, 631.—
B Esp., to speak, utter, make use of in speech: scio ego multos memoravisse milites mendacium, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 3: vocabula memorata Catonibus, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 117.—
II Memorare significat nunc dicere, nunc memoriae mandare, Paul. ex Fest. p. 124 Müll.—Hence,
A mĕmŏrātus, a, um, P. a., memorable, renowned, celebrated (poet. and in post-class. prose): ubi nunc nobis deus ille magister nequiquam memoratus Eryx? Verg. A. 5, 391: locus Italiae ... fama multis memoratus in oris, id. ib. 7, 564; Anthol. Lat. 1, 170, 102; 1, 172, 4: sepulcrum memoratissimum, Gell. 10, 18, 4.—
2 Esp., before mentioned: dux, Amm. 15, 5, 4 al.
B mĕmŏrandus, a, um, P. a., worthy of remembrance, memorable, celebrated (poet. and post-class.): juvenis memorande, Verg. A. 10, 793.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: pugnae memorandae meae, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 52: locus, Flor. 2, 8, 11: res, Juv. 2, 102: exitus, Flor. 4, 2, 33.

In the wild

6 of 848 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.