different between remember vs cite

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorari (“to remember again”), from re- + memor (“mindful”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *(s)mer- (“to think about, be mindful, remember”). Cognate with Old English mimorian, mymerian (“to remember, commemorate”), Old English m?morian (“to deliberate, plan out, design”). More at mammer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???m?mb?/
• (General American, uncommon or dialectal, in rapid speech) IPA^(key): /?m?mb?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???m?mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: re?mem?ber

Verb

remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)

1. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Remember me? I live in your building.

   • 2021, President Joe Biden

     To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation.

2. To memorize; to put something into memory.

3. To keep in mind, be mindful of

4. To not forget (to do something required)

5. To convey greetings from.

6. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively)
   • 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.

   • 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Secret Parting", lines 5-7

     But soon, remembering her how brief the whole

     Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,

     Her set gaze gathered

7. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.

8. (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.

   My aunt remembered me in her will, leaving me several thousand pounds.

   • 2003, Little Visits 365 Family Devotions: Building Faith for a Lifetime (Concordia Publishing House)

     Waitresses, mail carriers, and teachers were often remembered on Boxing Day.

9. (transitive) to commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony

Usage notes

• In sense 1 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
• In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
• See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• remembre (obsolete)

Synonyms

• recall
• reminisce

Derived terms

• disremember
• misremember
• rememberer
• remembrance

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: memre

Translations

See also

• recollect
• recollection
• remind

Etymology 2

re- +? member

Verb

remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)

1. (rare) Alternative form of re-member
   • 1982, Book Review Digest, volume 78, page 824:

     knit 'this scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / these broken limbs again into one body ' - in other words, how to resurrect the dismembered god, to remember Osiris. Yet the only body made whole in these expert, lowering poems is the body of this death.

   • 2008, Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, page 42:

     According to these mysteries, the rites of fashioning or remembering Osiris came to be interpreted as remembering Egypt. Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.

   • 2010, Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth, page 100:

     She remembered Osiris by putting his pieces back together and mating with him one last time, conceiving Horus, who eventually avenged his father's death.

   • 2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc (?ISBN)

     To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.

Alternative forms

• re-member

Anagrams

• remembre

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t, IPA^(key): /sa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: sight, site

Etymology 1

From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ci?re (“to rouse, excite, call”).

Verb

cite (third-person singular simple present cites, present participle citing, simple past and past participle cited)

1. to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
2. to list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
3. to summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

Usage notes

Loosely, or for brevity in journalism, the word is used to mean no more than "mention". [an extension of sense 1]

Derived terms

• cital

Related terms

• citation

Translations

See also

• attest
• quote

Etymology 2

From the first syllable of citation. Analogous to quote, from quotation.

Noun

cite (plural cites)

1. (informal) a citation

Translations

Further reading

• cite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cite at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• -etic, CETI, EITC, Tice, etic, tice

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?t?]

Noun

cite

1. vocative singular of cit

French

Verb

cite

1. first-person singular present indicative of citer
2. third-person singular present indicative of citer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of citer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of citer
5. second-person singular imperative of citer

Latin

Participle

cite

1. vocative masculine singular of citus

References

• cite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Alternative forms

• site, citee, city

Etymology

Old French cité, from Latin civitas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?te?/

Noun

cite (plural cites)

1. city
   • a. 1382, Wycliffe's Bible, Luke 8:1:

     And it was don aftirward, and Jhesu made iorney by citees and castelis, prechinge and euangelysinge þe rewme of God

     And it was done afterwards, and Jesus made a journey through cities and castles, proclaiming and spreading the kingdom of God.

Coordinate terms

• toun

Descendants

• English: city (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: ceety

Portuguese

Verb

cite

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of citar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of citar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of citar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of citar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??ite/, [??i.t?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?site/, [?si.t?e]

Verb

cite

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of citar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of citar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of citar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of citar.