aide-mémoire

See also: aide-memoire

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aide-mémoire (literally “memory aid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeɪd.mɛmˈwɑː/ (or as French, below)

Noun

aide-mémoire (plural aide-mémoires)

1. A memory-aid; a reminder or memorandum, especially a book or document serving this purpose.
2. (diplomacy) a document circulated in a meeting or summit for discussion purposes (also termed a non-paper)
   • 2013, Trinidad Express, "IDB tells T&T: Fix procurement laws", Trinidad Express, 15 November,

     In August, Finance Minister Larry Howai signed an aide-mémoire with the IDB for the bank to provide funding and expertise to the government to develop its Public/Private Sector Partnership Programme (PPP).

Synonyms

• non-paper

Translations

reminder

• Finnish: muistin tuki; muistikirja (fi) (book); muistilappu (piece of paper)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

diplomacy: document

• Finnish: muistio (fi), keskustelumuistio
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} pro memoria f
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} pró-memória (pt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pro memoria m

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French

Etymology

aider +‎ mémoire

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛd.me.mwaʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

aide-mémoire m (plural aide-mémoires)

1. aide-mémoire, crib

Further reading

• “aide-mémoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.