From Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer, from Late Latin rememorari, from re- + memor ("mindful"), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *(s)mer- ("to think about, be mindful, remember").

The success of the Old French word was helped by its proximity in sound and meaning to an existing Germanic word: Old English mimorian, mymerian ("to remember, commemorate") from Proto-Germanic *mimrōną, *mīmrōną ("to remember, be mindful"), from the same Indo-European source, and is akin to Saterland Frisian mīmerje, Middle Low German mimeren, Middle Dutch mimeren (Dutch mijmeren), Old English mimor, Old Norse Mímir, Mim ("Norse god of memory"), Old English māmrian.

Displaced native Middle English ȝemuneȝen, from Old English ġemynegian; Middle English minnen, from Old Norse minna; Middle English munden, ȝemunden ("to bear in mind, remember"), from Old English ġemynd; Middle English ithenchen, ȝethenchen ("to think on, remember"), from Old English ġeþencan; Middle English manien, from Old English manian.

• (America) IPA: /ɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/, /ɹəˈmɛmbɚ/
• (America, uncommon or dialectal, in rapid speech) IPA: /ˈmɛmbɚ/, /ˈɹɪmbɚ/, /ˈɹɛmbɚ/
• (RP) IPA: /ɹɪˈmɛmbə/

remember (remembers, present participle remembering; simple past and past participle remembered)

1. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:

     […] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.

   • 2016, [https://web.archive.org/web/20171023035740/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-lesson-7-what-are-you-doing/3240468.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)

     Remember me? I live in your building.

   • 2021, President Joe Biden, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation.

2. To memorize; to put something into memory.

   Please remember this formula!

3. To keep in mind; to be mindful of.

   Remember what I've said.

4. To not forget (to do something required)

   Remember to lock the door when you go out.

5. To convey greetings from.

   Please remember me to your brother.

   She asks to be remembered to you all.

   • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  […], published 1634, →OCLC ↗, Act I, scene i, page 3 ↗:

     Emil. Thanckes Sir; Remember me
     To our all royall Brother, for whose speede
     The great Bellona ile sollicite; and […]

6. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer's Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC ↗; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC ↗:

     My friends remember'd me of home.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Secret Parting, lines 5–7:

     But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
     Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
     Her set gaze gathered

7. (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.

   You don't have to remind him; he remembers very well.

8. (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.

   My aunt remembered me in her will, leaving me several thousand pounds.

   • 2003, Little Visits 365 Family Devotions: Building Faith for a Lifetime, Concordia Publishing House:

     Waitresses, mail carriers, and teachers were often remembered on Boxing Day.

9. (transitive) to commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony

   Today we remember and honour those who have served.

• recall
• reminisce

• French: se rappeler, se souvenir, se remémorer
• German: erinnern
• Italian: ricordare, rammentare, rammemorare, rimembrare
• Portuguese: lembrar-se, recordar-se
• Russian: по́мнить
• Spanish: acordarse, recordar, rememorar, remembrar, arrecordarse

• French: retenir
• German: merken
• Italian: memorizzare
• Portuguese: decorar, memorizar
• Russian: запо́мина́ть
• Spanish: retener, memorizar

• French: penser à
• German: daran denken
• Italian: ricordare, ricordarsi
• Russian: по́мнить
• Spanish: recordar

• German: grüßen
• Italian: ricordare
• Spanish: darse recuerdos

• German: bedenken

• German: gedenken
• Russian: помина́ть

remember (remembers, present participle remembering; simple past and past participle remembered)

1. (rare) Alternative form of re-member
   • 1982, Book Review Digest, volume 78, page 824:

     knit 'this scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / these broken limbs again into one body' - in other words, how to resurrect the dismembered god, to remember Osiris. Yet the only body made whole in these expert, lowering poems is the body of this death.

   • 2008, Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, page 42:

     According to these mysteries, the rites of fashioning or remembering Osiris came to be interpreted as remembering Egypt. Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.

   • 2010, Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth, page 100:

     She remembered Osiris by putting his pieces back together and mating with him one last time, conceiving Horus, who eventually avenged his father's death.