What is the etymology of the word "memory"?

Question

What are the roots' meanings? When is the earliest known use? Have there been any changes in form and meaning? Anything you know about the word memory?

Answer 1

c.1250, from Anglo-Fr. memorie, from L. memoria, from memor "mindful, remembering," from PIE base *men-/*mon- "think." Computer sense is from 1946.

Memorize is 1591 in sense of "commit to writing," the mental meaning is from 1838.  

Answer 2

Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French, from Latin memoria, from memor, mindful.

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Answer 3

c.1250, from Anglo-Fr. memorie, from L. memoria, from memor "mindful, remembering," from PIE base *men-/*mon- "think." Computer sense is from 1946.

Answer 4

memo- abbrevaition for memorandum

memoir- remebrance of events

memorabilia-objects that remind

memorandus-singular

memoranda -plural

memoria-amnesia

memory-abilty to call mind,soul ,psyche,personality

from mnemosyne thus relating to mnemonic,mind ,falsehood, or latin  memor -mindful.