English

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From Latin memorātus, past participle of memorāre (to bring to remembrance, mention, recount), from memor (remembering); see memory.

Noun

edit

memorate (plural memorates)

  1. (folklore) an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.
    • 1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232:
      An undemonstrable legend is no legend at all. One must postulate that every fabulate is based on a memorate.

Verb

edit

memorate (third-person singular simple present memorates, present participle memorating, simple past and past participle memorated)

  1. (obsolete) to commemorate
  2. (obsolete) to memorize
edit

Further reading

edit

Esperanto

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Adverb

edit

memorate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of memori

Pronunciation

edit

Verb

edit

memorate

  1. adverbial present passive participle of memorar

Interlingua

edit

Participle

edit

memorate

  1. past participle of memorar

Latin

edit

Participle

edit

memorāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of memorātus

Verb

edit

memorāte

  1. imperative second-person plural of memoro

Spanish

edit

Verb

edit

memorate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of memorar combined with te