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μνημονικός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: mnēmonikos

Principal Part: μνημονικός

Structure: μνημονικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: μνήμων

Sense

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

Examples

  • 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

명사

형용사

동사

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

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