英単語

memoryの意味・使い方・発音

memory

英 ['mem(ə)rɪ] 美 ['mɛməri]
  • n.記憶、ニモニック; 記憶、[メートル]ストア; 回想
  • n.(記憶)人名;(英)メモリー

語源


memory メモリー

ラテン語の memor(記憶する、思い出させる、考える)から。派生語源 memory, storage など。

英語の語源


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.

例文


1. 「His memory must be completely back,then?」—"Just about."
「ということは、彼の記憶は完全に回復したに違いない?」—「大差ない」

2.The memory of it all was locked deep in my subconscious.
それに関するすべての記憶は私の潜在意識に深く根付いている。

3.Intoxication interferes with memory and thinking,speech and coordination.
酔っ払うと記憶、思考、言語、協調性に影響を与える。

4.He had a good memory ,and total recall of her spoken words.
彼は記憶力がよく、彼女が言ったことをすべて覚えている。dd>

5.Bulman was cursed with a poor memory for names.
ブールマンはいつも人名を覚えられない。

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