memorateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

名詞

memorate (複数形 memorates)

1. (folklore) an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.
   • 1974, Linda Dégh and Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, DOI:10.2307/538735, page 232:

     An undemonstrable legend is no legend at all. One must postulate that every fabulate is based on a memorate.

動詞

memorate (三人称単数 現在形 memorates, 現在分詞 memorating, 過去形および過去分詞形 memorated)

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

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