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μνημονικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μνημονικός

Structure: μνημονικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mnh/mwn

Sense

  1. of or for remembrance or memory, memory, memoria technica
  2. having a good memory
  3. from or by memory

Examples

  • νυνὶ γὰρ ἴσωσ οὐ χρῇ τῷ μνημονικῷ τεχνήματι ‐ δῆλον γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ οἰεί δεῖν ‐ ἀλλὰ ἐγώ σε ὑπομνήσω. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 37:6)

Synonyms

  1. having a good memory

  2. from or by memory

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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