The corpus record

μνημόσῠνον

mnemosunon · τό

remembrance, memorial

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Where it lives

Esther 8 · 14.46/10k
Siracides 17 · 9.21/10k
Malachias 1 · 7.2/10k
Osee 2 · 5.31/10k
Exodus 10 · 4.22/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 2 · 4.2/10k
Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
Leviticus 6 · 3.21/10k
Machabaeorum I 5 · 2.87/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Numeri 5 · 2.17/10k
Wasps 2 · 2.06/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μνημόσῠνον · mnēmosynon — LSJ

remembrance, memorial

remembrance, memorial of a thing, μνημόσυνον ἑωυτοῦ λιπέσθαι Hdt. 1.185, 4.166; μνημόσυνον λιπέσθαι Id. 1.186, 2.101; μνημόσυνα ἀποδέξασθαι ib. 148, al.: rare in early Att. Prose, Th. 5.11; μ. στοργῆς AP 12.68 (Mel.); εἰς μ. τινός Ev.Matt. 26.13, cf. Act.Ap. 10.4.

2 memorandum, reminder

memorandum, reminder, μνημόσυνα γράψομαι Ar. V. 538; τουτὶ . . ἔστω τὸ μ. μοι ib. 559.

3 mark, scar

mark, scar, μ. ὑποκαταλιπεῖν Hp. Prorrh. 2.20.

In the wild

μνημόσυνα · mnēmosyna Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 394)
μνημόσυνόν · mnēmosynon Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 406)
μνημόσυνον · mnēmosynon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2520)
μνημόσυνα · mnēmosyna Herodotus, Histories 1.185.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1299)
μνημόσυνον · mnēmosynon Herodotus, Histories 1.186.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1312)
μνημόσυνα · mnēmosyna Herodotus, Histories 2.101.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2243)

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Where it came from

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