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Webster 1913 Edition

Mnemosyne

Mne-mos′y-ne

,

Noun.

[L., fr. Gr.

μνημοσύνη

remembrance, memory, and the goddess of memory. See

.]

(Class Myth.)

The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.

Definition 2024

Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne

English

Proper noun

Mnemosyne

(Greek mythology) A Titaness and the personification of thought, intellect and memory. She is the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus.
(astronomy) Short for 57 Mnemosyne, a main belt asteroid.

Translations

Titaness

French: Mnémosyne (fr) f
German: Mnemosyne (de) f
Hungarian: Mnémoszüné f
Inuktitut: ᒻᓂᒧᓰᓂ ‎(mnimusiini)
Italian: Mnemosine f

Japanese: ムネーモシュネー ‎(Munēmoshunē)
Polish: Mnemosyne (pl) f
Portuguese: Mnemosine f, Mnemósine f
Russian: Мнемози́на f ‎(Mnemozína), Мнемоси́на f ‎(Mnemosína)
Spanish: Mnemosina (es) f, Mnemósine f
Swahili: Mnemosine

Asteroid

Portuguese

Proper noun

Mnemosyne f

Archaic spelling of Mnemosine.