retentive
retentive
adj.
Good at remembering: P. and V. μνήμων.
Impressionable: Ar. and P. ἁ̆πᾰλός.
adj.
Good at remembering: P. and V. μνήμων.
Impressionable: Ar. and P. ἁ̆πᾰλός.
RETENTIVE
by circumlocution with the verbs in To RETAIN.A retentive memory memoria bona (Cic. Att.) tenax: a more retentive memory memoria melior (Cic.): a very retentive one tenacissima (Quint.): to have a retentive memory memoria valere vigere. If preceded by “so” - (that) tantus. Anybody had so retentive a memory that alicui memoria tauta fuit ut etc. (e.g. Hortensio Cic.).
by circumlocution with the verbs in To RETAIN.A retentive memory memoria bona (Cic. Att.) tenax: a more retentive memory memoria melior (Cic.): a very retentive one tenacissima (Quint.): to have a retentive memory memoria valere vigere. If preceded by “so” - (that) tantus. Anybody had so retentive a memory that alicui memoria tauta fuit ut etc. (e.g. Hortensio Cic.).
retentive: tĕnax, ācis (constr. with gen.): a r. memory, t. memoria, Plin. Ep. 6, 11: Quint. Phr.: a city r. of the institutions of its founder, civitas conditoris retinens, Tac. A. 6, 42: the acute, r. being whom we call man, animal acutum, memor, quem vocamus hominem, Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 22.