memo

See also: Memo and mémo

English

Etymology

Clipping of memorandum

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛməʊ̯/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛmoʊ̯/
• Rhymes: -ɛməʊ

Noun

memo (plural memos)

1. A short note; a memorandum.
2. (computing) A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.

Derived terms

• memoization
• memoize

Translations

a short note

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 備忘錄 (zh), 备忘录 (zh) (bèiwànglù), 便箋 (zh), 便笺 (zh) (biànjiān)

• Finnish: muistio (fi)
• French: note (fr) f, memorandum (fr) m
• German: Memo (de) n, Notiz (de) f, Zettel (de) m
• Japanese: メモ (ja) (memo)
• Korean: 메모 (ko) (memo)
• Portuguese: nota (pt) f

• Russian: запи́ска (ru) f (zapíska), па́мятка (ru) f (pámjatka), мемора́ндум (ru) m (memorándum) (formal), служе́бная запи́ска f (služébnaja zapíska) (office memo)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀дсетнӣк m, по̀дсјетнӣк m

  Roman: pòdsetnīk (sh) m, pòdsjetnīk (sh) m

• Swedish: pm (abbreviation of promemoria)
• Turkish: kısa not (tr)

Verb

memo (third-person singular simple present memos, present participle memoing, simple past and past participle memoed)

1. (informal) To record something; to make a note of something.
2. (informal) To send someone a note about something, for the record.

   I made sure to memo him about the client's complaints.

Anagrams

• EMOM, mome

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English memo. Equivalent to a shortening of memorandum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.moː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: me‧mo

Noun

memo n or m (plural memo's)

1. memo (reminder, short note)

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Japanese

Romanization

memo

1. Rōmaji transcription of メモ

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Portuguese

Adverb

memo

1. Eye dialect spelling of mesmo.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmemo/, [ˈme.mo]

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic of stuttering.

Noun

memo m (plural memos)

1. idiot

Adjective

memo (feminine mema, masculine plural memos, feminine plural memas)

1. silly, stupid

Further reading

• “memo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Etymology 2

Clipping of memorando.

Noun

memo m (plural memos)

1. (chiefly Chile, Guatemala, Honduras) memorandum