English → Latin
“remembrance” in Latin
memoriamemory; the ability to remember; a remembrance, a thing remembered; a time of remembrancerecordātiōrecollection, remembrance, reminiscenceaeternusabiding, lasting, permanent, perpetual; endless, eternal; immortalimmortālisimmortal, undying, not subject to death.
The English word remembrance itself goes back to Latin rememoror, through rememorārī.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
remembrance
memoria: recordatio (the former = memory; the latter, recollection). (The words are found in this connection and order.) recordatio et memoria. A constant, perpetual remembrance, memoria sempiterna, aeterna, or immortalis; memoria diuturna: a fresh remembrance, memoria recens: to keep in remembrance, memoria custodire, tenere aliquid; memoriam alicujus rei servare, conservare, retinere (of anything); memoriam alicujus colere (of a person): to retain a grateful remembrance of anybody, gratissimam alicujus memoriam retinere: to keep anything fresh in remembrance, recenti memoria tenere aliquid: to have or keep anything always in remembrance, immortali memoria retinere aliquid: to keep a person always in remembrance, aeternam or sempitemam alicujus memoriam servare: he will everywhere be had in everlasting remembrance, in omnium gentium sermonibus ac mentibus semper haerebit, numquam ulla de eo obmutescet vetustas: to bring anything again into remembrance, to renew the remembrance of a thing, memoriam alicujus rei revocare, renovare, redintegrare, repraesentare: to destroy the remembrance of anything, tollere memoriam alicujus rei; aliquid e memoria evellere: to erect a statue in remembrance of anybody, laudis ut maneat memoria statuam alicui ponere. Vid: also, MEMORY.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for remembrance?
- The usual Latin words for “remembrance” are memoria, recordātiō, aeternus; also immortālis. 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.