Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mneme

/ˈniːmi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mneme
IPA: /ˈniːmi/

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Persisting effect of memory of past events.

name

One of the moons of the planet Jupiter, in the Ananke satellite group.

Example Sentences

"If the engraphia of the external world could sensibly modify in a few generations the hereditary mneme of the species, it appears evident that the Jewish infants of the present day would be born without prepuce, or at least with an atrophied one."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mneme which was coined by German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon in 1904 from Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē). First attested in English in 1921 where it was capitalized Mneme.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek
First known use: [from March 2005]

Word Breakdown

Root: μνήμη

Inflected Forms

mnemes (plural)

Phrases

Mneme Lake

Frequently Paired Words

Mneme Lake

Questions

How do you pronounce mneme?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈniːmi/.
What does mneme mean?: Persisting effect of memory of past events.
Where does mneme come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek. First known use: [from March 2005].

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