myEtymology.com: English etymology of memorialize

Etymology of the English word memorialize

the English word memorialize

derived from the English word memorial

derived from the Old French word memorial

derived from the Late Latin word memoriale (memorandum; memory)

derived from the Latin word memorialis (historiographer royal, man employed in the emperor's secretarial bureau)

derived from the Latin word memoria (memory, recollection; history)

derived from the Latin word memor (remembering; mindful)

using the English suffix -ize

derived from the Old French suffix -iser

derived from the Latin suffix -izare

derived from the Greek suffix -izein, -ίζειν