memento

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

Noun

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.

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

     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.

References

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

Noun

memento m (plural mementi)

1. memento, keepsake
2. warning

Verb

mementō

1. second-person singular future active imperative of meminī - remember!

References

• memento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

memento m (Cyrillic spelling мементо)

1. memento

Noun

memento m (plural mementos)

1. memento