memorialization

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Etymology

Etymology tree
English memorial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English memorialize
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English memorialization

    From memorialize + -ation.

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: mə-môr′ē-ə-lī-zā′shən
    • IPA(key): /məˌmɔːɹi.əˌlaɪˈzeɪ̯.ʃən/
    • Hyphenation: me‧mo‧ri‧al‧i‧za‧tion, me‧mor‧ial‧i‧za‧tion

    Noun

    memorialization (countable and uncountable, plural memorializations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

    1. The act or process of memorializing or creating a memorial.
      • 2007 October 2, Elias E. Lopez, “Nameless Are Memorialized at Old African Burial Site”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 September 2023:
        “This is an important milestone in the whole memorialization process,” said Howard Dodson, one of the early leaders in the development of the memorial and the chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library .

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