memento

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

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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.

   • 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.

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

• keepsake
• souvenir
• (plural): memorabilia

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

memento m (plural mementi)

1. memento, keepsake
2. warning

mementō

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

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

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

memento m (Cyrillic spelling мементо)

1. memento

memento m (plural mementos)

1. memento