memorandum

Learned borrowing from Latin memorandum, neuter of memorandus (“to be remembered”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛm.əˈɹæn.dəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

memorandum (plural memorandums or memoranda)

1. A short note serving as a reminder.
   • 1821, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:

     ....be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so many weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to it as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda against this parting interview; and my final anxieties being spent in comforting her with hopes, and in pressing upon her the necessity of getting some medicines for a violent cough and hoarseness with which she was troubled, I wholly forgot it until it was too late to recall her.

2. A written business communication.
3. A brief diplomatic communication.
4. A page in an annual publication honoring the memory of a person who died during the past year.

• “memorandum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “memorandum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin memorandum.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmeː.moːˈrɑn.dʏm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: me‧mo‧ran‧dum

memorandum n (plural memoranda)

1. memorandum (reminder, short note)

• memo

Unadapted borrowing from Latin memorandum.

• IPA^(key): /me.moˈran.dum/^[1]
• Rhymes: -andum
• Hyphenation: me‧mo‧ràn‧dum

memorandum m (invariable)

1. memorandum

memorandum

1. inflection of memorandus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• memorandu

Borrowed from Italian memorandum.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ.mɔˈran.dum/

memorandum m (plural memoranda)

1. memorandum

Learned borrowing from Latin memorandum.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ.mɔˈran.dum/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -andum
• Syllabification: me‧mo‧ran‧dum

memorandum n

1. memorandum (diplomatic letter without address, signature, and seal, generally presenting the state's views on the factual or legal side of the issues under negotiation and typically containing a repetition or supplement to a statement made orally, or to a conversation held)

   Synonym: aide-mémoire

• memorandum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• memorandum in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• memorandum in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from Latin memorandum.

memorandum n (plural memorandumuri)

1. memorandum

• IPA^(key): /memorǎndum/
• Hyphenation: me‧mo‧ran‧dum

memoràndum m inan (Cyrillic spelling мемора̀ндум)

1. memorandum
2. letterhead

memorandum n

1. a memorandum

• memorandum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• memorandum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• memorandum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)