Meanings
mneme1
plural mnemes
- 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.
1911, Auguste Forel, The Sexual question, page 34
Mneme2
- astronomyOne of the moons of the planet Jupiter, in the Ananke satellite group.
Origin
mneme · noun
- Ancient Greekμνήμη
- GermanMneme
- Englishmneme
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.
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Full word history & related roots →Mneme · proper noun
Named after Mneme, one of the three original Muses in Ancient Greek mythology. [from March 2005]
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French mnème
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mneme. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mneme
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