[Loch-Ruadh] word of the day

[Jane Sitton]

Your daily vocabulary lesson:
commemorate • \kuh-MEH-muh-rayt\ • (verb)

1: to call to remembrance  *2 a: to mark by some
ceremony or observation:observe  b: to serve as a
memorial of

Example sentence:
The children in Mrs. Clark's sixth-grade class have
made a memorial quilt to commemorate the events of
September 11, 2001.

Did you know?
When you remember something, you are mindful of it.
It's appropriate, therefore, that "commemorate" and
other related memory-associated words (including
"memorable," "memorial," "remember," and
"memory" itself) come from the Latin root "memor,"
meaning "mindful."  Some distant older relatives
are Old English "gemimor" ("well-known"), Greek
"mermera" ("care"), and Sanskrit "smarati" ("he
remembers").  English speakers have been marking the
memory of important events with "commemorate" since
the late 16th century.

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