English → Latin
“memory” in Latin
memoriamemory; the ability to remember; a remembrance, a thing remembered; a time of remembrancemonumentumreminder, memorial; monument; tomb, burial placevigeōto be vigorous or thriving; thrive, flourish; to be in honor, esteem or repute; prosper; to be alive, live
The English word memory itself goes back to Latin memor, through memoria.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
memory
The faculty, memoria: natural memory, naturalis memoria (opposed to artificiosa memoria; Vid: Auct. ad Her., 3, 16, 29): a system of artificial memory: artificium memoriae (Auct., ad Her., 3, 16, 28): an excellent memory, memoria singularis: a retentive memory, memoria tenax: to have a good memory, memoria valere, vigere: a liar ought to have a good memory, mendacem memorem esse oportet (Quint., 4, 2, 91; Apul., Apol., p. 318, 32): not to have a good memory, *parum valere memoria: my memory fails me, memoria mihi non constat; memoria labat; memoria labor; memoria me deficit: aliquid mihi non suppetit: to have in memory, in memoria habere, tenere, memoria complecti: to retain in memory, in memoria custodire; memoriam alicujus rei retinere: to impress upon the memory, memoriae tradere, mandare, committere, (strongly) memoriae inrigere: to commit to memory, memoriae mandare, tradere, committere, infigere: to repeat or recite from memory, memoriter pronunciare, recitare; ex memoria exponere: to recal a thing to the memory of another, alicui aliquid revocare, reducere in memoriam; recognoscere aliquid cum aliquo: to recal a thing to one’s own memory, reminiscendo recognoscere: to banish from one’s memory, aliquid ex memoria deponere; memoriam alicujus rei deponere or abjicere; evellere aliquid e memoria.
Remembrance, memoria: to leave a memory of his name, memoriam sui relinquere: to cherish the memory of [Vid: CHERISH].
A memorial, monument, monumentum.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for memory?
- The usual Latin words for “memory” are memoria, monumentum, vigeō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.