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in memorium

in memorium is the misspelling of in memoriam.

Meaning of in memoriam

Adverb

in memoriam (not comparable)

  1. In memory (of); as a memorial.
    • An Enchanted Castle, and Other Poems, 1893, p. 72, prefaces the poem with this line, which suggests that the poem was written “in memoriam”: “[C. L. P., OB. JULY 18, 1884.]”.2004, John P. Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre, “Notes” to The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews, Scribner, page 553

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Origin of in memorium

From memoriam, with influence from the common Latin ending -ium.

Questions about in memorium

What is in memorium the misspelling of?
In memorium is the misspelling of in memoriam.

Words near in memorium in the dictionary

  1. in meantime
  2. in media res
  3. in medias res
  4. in memoriam
  5. in memoriams
  6. in memorium
  7. in memory of
  8. in midstream
  9. in mind
  10. in Minecraft
  11. in miniature

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in memorium (page history and authors); in memoriam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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