different between memory vs madeleine

English

Alternative forms

• memorie (archaic)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek ????? (mn?m?, “memory”) ???????? (mérmeros, “anxious”), ??????? (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?m(?)?i/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /?m?m(?)?i/
• Hyphenation: mem?o?ry, mem?ory

Noun

memory (countable and uncountable, plural memories)

1. (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.

   Synonym: recall

2. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

   Synonyms: recall, recollection

3. (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

   Synonym: (dated) core
4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

5. (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated

6. (obsolete) A memorial.
7. (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• in-memory

Related terms

Translations

See also

• memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• remember
• mnemonics

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious.

In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mad(?)l?n/, /?mad(?)l?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæd?l?n/, /?mæd??le?n/

Noun

madeleine (plural madeleines)

1. A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
2. (figuratively) Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.

Translations

Further reading

• “madeleine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “madeleine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• madeleine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from French madeleine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?del?i?n/, [?m?de?l?i?n]

Noun

madeleine

1. madeleine (small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell)

   Synonym: madeleine-leivos

Declension

French

Etymology

From earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: see more above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.dl?n/

• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

madeleine f (plural madeleines)

1. madeleine (small gateau in the shape of a scallop shell)
2. (figuratively) madeleine (something which brings back a memory)

Derived terms

• pleurer comme une madeleine

Descendants

• ? Catalan: magdalena
• ? English: madeleine
• ? German: Madeleine

Further reading

• “madeleine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).