mem
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Etymology 1 edit
From Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *maʾ- (“*maʾ-/*may-”). Doublet of mu.
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Noun edit
mem (plural mems)
- The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
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Noun edit
mem (plural mems)
- (slang) Clipping of memory.
- 2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan[2]:
- 6. Throw Away the Mems [chapter title] ¶ Now that you’ve got some theme music, it’s time to take that old teddy bear and V-Day card and toss ‘em in the dumpster.
- (computing theory) A memory access as part of processing.
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Azerbaijani edit
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mem (definite accusative memi, plural memlər)
Further reading edit
- mem on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia az
- İnternet memi on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia az
Catalan edit
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mem m (plural mems)
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- mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
- mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
Czech edit
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mem m inan
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- memetika f
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Particle edit
mem
- -self, -selves
- 1998, Henrik Ibsen, translated by Odd Tangerud, Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj[3]:
- KROGSTAD. Vere ne? Ŝajnas al mi, ke vi mem ĵus diris —
- KROGSTAD. Truly not? It seems to me, that you yourself just said —
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Pronoun edit
mem
- itself
- La koloro de la flago mem estis blanka sen surpreso, ruĝa aŭ nigra, blanka ĝenerale signifis la persekutadon, ĉe kiu la viktimo povis kapitulaci.[4]
- The color of the flag itself was white without foreground image, red or black; white generally denoted persecution, at which the victim could surrender.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Phoenician [Term?].
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Noun edit
mem
- mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension edit
Inflection of mem (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | mem | memit | ||
genitive | memin | memien | ||
partitive | memiä | memejä | ||
illative | memiin | memeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | mem | memit | ||
accusative | nom. | mem | memit | |
gen. | memin | |||
genitive | memin | memien | ||
partitive | memiä | memejä | ||
inessive | memissä | memeissä | ||
elative | memistä | memeistä | ||
illative | memiin | memeihin | ||
adessive | memillä | memeillä | ||
ablative | memiltä | memeiltä | ||
allative | memille | memeille | ||
essive | meminä | memeinä | ||
translative | memiksi | memeiksi | ||
abessive | memittä | memeittä | ||
instructive | — | memein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.
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mem
- even, still (in comparison)
- Ica pano esas bona, ma ita esas mem plu bona
- That bread is good but that is even better.
- (emphasis) really, indeed
- Yes, me konfesas, ke mea manui esas mem tre sordida.
- Yes, I admit that my hands are really very dirty.
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- ya (“indeed”)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Hebrew מם (mēm), from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm, “water”).
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Noun edit
mem m or f (invariable)
- mem, specifically:
- the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤌
- the name of the Hebrew-script letter מ/ם
Mauritian Creole edit
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mem
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mem
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Polish edit
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mem m inan
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Further reading edit
- mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish edit
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Etymology edit
From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).
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mem c
- a meme (unit of cultural information)
- (Internet, chiefly in the alternative form "meme") a meme
- Synonym: (slang) mejmej
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Declension of mem | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mem | memen | memer | memerna |
Genitive | mems | memens | memers | memernas |
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Tocharian A edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *mēdye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor), or alternatively to *meh₁-ye/o- from *meh₁- (“to measure”) (whence Latin mētior). Compare Tocharian B maim.
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mem
Volapük edit
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mem (nominative plural mems)
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West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Old Frisian *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā. Compare English mum.
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Noun edit
mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)
Further reading edit
- “mem”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011