memorable

memorable

See also: mémorable

English

Etymology

From Middle French mémorable, from Latin memorābilis, from memorō (“to bring to remembrance”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”). See memory, and confer memorabilia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛm(ə)ɹəbl̩/

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• Hyphenation: mem‧or‧able

Adjective

memorable (comparative more memorable, superlative most memorable)

1. Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
   • 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum

     Men have surviving Fame to gain,
     By Tombs, by Books, by memorable Deeds

   a memorable holiday

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:memorable

Derived terms

• memorableness
• memorability
• memorably

Translations

worthy of being remembered

Afrikaans: gedenkwaardig Bulgarian: паметен (bg) (pameten), незабравим (bg) (nezabravim) Catalan: memorable (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 難忘／难忘 (zh) (nánwàng), 值得紀念的／值得纪念的 (zhíde jìniàn de) Danish: mindeværdig Dutch: memorabel (nl), gedenkwaardig (nl) Esperanto: memorinda Finnish: mieleenpainuva French: mémorable (fr) Galician: memorábel (gl) German: denkwürdig (de), merkwürdig (de), einprägsam (de) Greek: αξιομνημόνευτος (el) (axiomnimóneftos) Hindi: स्मरणीय (hi) (smarṇīya) Hungarian: emlékezetes (hu) Icelandic: eftirminnilegur (is), minnistæður Latin: memorābilis Norwegian: Bokmål: minneverdig, minnerik Nynorsk: minneverdig, minnerik Old English: ġemyndelīċ Plautdietsch: denkjwieet Polish: pamiętny (pl) Portuguese: memorável (pt) Romanian: memorabil (ro) Russian: па́мятный (ru) (pámjatnyj) Spanish: memorable (es), inolvidable (es) Swedish: minnesvärd (sv)

References

• memorable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin memorābilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /mə.moˈɾa.blə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mə.muˈɾa.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me.moˈɾa.ble/

Adjective

memorable (masculine and feminine plural memorables)

1. memorable

Related terms

• memòria

Further reading

• “memorable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “memorable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “memorable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “memorable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin memorābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /memoˈɾable/ [me.moˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: me‧mo‧ra‧ble

Adjective

memorable (plural memorables)

1. memorable

Derived terms

• memorablemente

Related terms

• memoria

Further reading

• “memorable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014