μνημονικός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “remembering”) + -ικός (-ikós, “relative to”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mnɛː.mo.ni.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mne̝.mo.niˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mni.mo.niˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mni.mo.niˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mni.mo.niˈkos/
Adjective
μνημονῐκός • (mnēmonikós) m (feminine μνημονῐκή, neuter μνημονῐκόν); first/second declension
- pertaining to remembrance or memory, memorial
Inflection
First and second declension of μνημονῐκός; μνημονῐκή; μνημονῐκόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | μνημονῐκός mnēmonikós | μνημονῐκή mnēmonikḗ | μνημονῐκόν mnēmonikón | μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ | μνημονῐκᾱ́ mnēmonikā́ | μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ | μνημονῐκοί mnēmonikoí | μνημονῐκαί mnēmonikaí | μνημονῐκᾰ́ mnēmoniká | |||||
Genitive | μνημονῐκοῦ mnēmonikoû | μνημονῐκῆς mnēmonikês | μνημονῐκοῦ mnēmonikoû | μνημονῐκοῖν mnēmonikoîn | μνημονῐκαῖν mnēmonikaîn | μνημονῐκοῖν mnēmonikoîn | μνημονῐκῶν mnēmonikôn | μνημονῐκῶν mnēmonikôn | μνημονῐκῶν mnēmonikôn | |||||
Dative | μνημονῐκῷ mnēmonikôi | μνημονῐκῇ mnēmonikêi | μνημονῐκῷ mnēmonikôi | μνημονῐκοῖν mnēmonikoîn | μνημονῐκαῖν mnēmonikaîn | μνημονῐκοῖν mnēmonikoîn | μνημονῐκοῖς mnēmonikoîs | μνημονῐκαῖς mnēmonikaîs | μνημονῐκοῖς mnēmonikoîs | |||||
Accusative | μνημονῐκόν mnēmonikón | μνημονῐκήν mnēmonikḗn | μνημονῐκόν mnēmonikón | μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ | μνημονῐκᾱ́ mnēmonikā́ | μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ | μνημονῐκούς mnēmonikoús | μνημονῐκᾱ́ς mnēmonikā́s | μνημονῐκᾰ́ mnēmoniká | |||||
Vocative | μνημονῐκέ mnēmoniké | μνημονῐκή mnēmonikḗ | μνημονῐκόν mnēmonikón | μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ | μνημονῐκᾱ́ mnēmonikā́ | μνημονῐκώ mnēmonikṓ | μνημονῐκοί mnēmonikoí | μνημονῐκαί mnēmonikaí | μνημονῐκᾰ́ mnēmoniká | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
μνημονῐκῶς mnēmonikôs | μνημονῐκώτερος mnēmonikṓteros | μνημονῐκώτᾰτος mnēmonikṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: mnēmonicus
- → English: mnemonic
- → Catalan: mnemònic
- → Czech: mnemonický
- → Dutch: mnemonisch
- → Esperanto: mnemonika
- → French: mnémonique
- → German: mnemonisch
- → Portuguese: mnemónico, mnemônico
- → Spanish: mnemónico
- → Russian: мнемони́ческий (mnemoníčeskij)
Further reading
- “μνημονικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- memory idem, page 524.
- tenacious idem, page 861.