memento

Borrowed from Latin mementō (“remember”), imperative form of meminī (“I remember”).

• IPA^(key): /məˈmɛntoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

memento (plural mementos or mementoes)

1. A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

   I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.

   • 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:

     In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.

   • 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.

• The spelling momento is so common that some references now no longer consider it a misspelling.

• keepsake
• souvenir
• (plural): memorabilia

• → Japanese: メメント
• → Serbo-Croatian: memento
• → Marathi: मेमेटो (memeṭo)

• “memento”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (usage note)

Borrowed from Latin mementō.

memento m (plural mementi)

1. memento, keepsake
2. warning

• memento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• tenemmo

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meˈmen.toː/, [mɛˈmɛn̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈmen.to/, [meˈmɛn̪t̪o]

mementō

1. second-person singular future active imperative of meminī

• memento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from French mémento.

memento n (uncountable)

1. memento

• IPA^(key): /memento/
• Hyphenation: me‧men‧to

memento m (Cyrillic spelling мементо)

1. memento

Borrowed from Latin mementō.

• IPA^(key): /meˈmento/ [meˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: me‧men‧to

memento m (plural mementos)

1. memento

• “memento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28