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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