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mneme¹

  • /ˈniːmi/
  • /ˈniːm/ dated, uncommon

Where it comes from

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.

noun mnemes

  1. Persisting effect of memory of past events. 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.

Mneme²

  • /ˈniːmiː/

Where it comes from

Named after Mneme, one of the three original Muses in Ancient Greek mythology. [from March 2005]

proper noun

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

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mneme. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mneme

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"mneme." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mneme.

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@misc{mneme_2026,
  title = {mneme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mneme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}