Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἦ μνημονικὸσ εἶ; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode5)
  • ὡσ οὖν εἰσ τὸ μανθάνειν ἧκε, νωθρὸσ ἦν ἀναλαβεῖν καὶ βραδύσ, ἀναλαβὼν δὲ κάτοχοσ καὶ μνημονικόσ, ὃ δὴ καὶ πέφυκεν ἄλλωσ, τοὺσ μὲν εὐφυεῖσ ἀναμνηστικοὺσ μᾶλλον εἶναι, μνημονικοὺσ δὲ τοὺσ μετὰ πόνου καὶ πραγματείασ παραδεχομένουσ· (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 1 3:1)
  • ὢν καὶ μνημονικὸσ ὁ ἰχθύσ. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 32 10:1)
  • "τολμήσειεν εἰπεῖν πρὸσ Ἀθηναίουσ, ὡσ ὁ Φίλιπποσ δεινὸσ εἰπεῖν καὶ μνημονικόσ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 431)
  • "οὐδ’ ὡσ μνημονικόσ, σοφιστοῦ τὰ τοιαῦτα νομίζων ἐργολαβοῦντοσ ἐγκώμια εἶναι. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1125)

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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