mem
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mem"
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛm
Etymology 1
From Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *maʾ- (“*maʾ-/*may-”). Doublet of mu.
Alternative forms
Noun
mem (plural mems)
- The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
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:
- 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.
See also
Anagrams
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mem (definite accusative memi, plural memlər)
Further reading
mem on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia az- İnternet memi on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia az
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mem m (plural mems)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mem” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2024.
- mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
- mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
Noun
mem m inan
Declension
Declension of mem (hard masculine inanimate)
Related terms
- memetika f
Etymology
Pronunciation
Particle
mem
Derived terms
Pronoun
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.VP
- The color of the flag itself was white without foreground image, red or black; white generally denoted persecution, at which the victim could surrender.
Etymology
From Phoenician [Term?].
Pronunciation
Noun
mem
- mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension
| Inflection of mem (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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Anagrams
Etymology
Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.
Pronunciation
Adverb
mem
See also
- ya (“indeed”)
Etymology
From Hebrew מם (mēm), from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm, “water”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mem m or f (invariable)
- mem, specifically:
- the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤌
- the name of the Hebrew-script letter מ/ם
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
mem
Adverb
mem
Derived terms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
mem m inan
Declension
Declension of mem
Further reading
- mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Alternative forms
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mem c
- a meme (unit of cultural information)
- (Internet, chiefly in the alternative form "meme") a meme
- Synonym: (slang) mejmej
Declension
Related terms
References
Etymology
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.
Noun
mem
Noun
mem (nominative plural mems)
Declension
declension of mem
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Etymology
Probably from Old Frisian *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā. Compare English mum.
Pronunciation
Noun
mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)
Further reading
- “mem”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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