vade mecum

See also: vademecum, vademécum, vade-mecum, Vade Mecum, and vade-mécum

English

WOTD – 16 January 2006

Alternative forms

• vade-mecum
• Vade Mecum
• vademecum

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vāde (“go!, walk!”), the second-person singular present active imperative of vādō (“I go, I walk”) + mēcum (“with me”), literally meaning "go with me".

Noun

vade mecum (plural vade mecums)

1. A referential book such as a handbook or manual.
2. A useful object, constantly carried on one’s person.

Translations

referential book

• Arabic: كتاب تعليمي
• Finnish: käsikirja (fi), opaskirja (fi), opas (fi), vade mecum (fi)
• French: vade-mecum (fr)
• Georgian: სახელმძღვანელო (saxelmʒɣvanelo), ცნობარი (cnobari)
• German: Vademecum (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐγχειρίδιον n (enkheirídion)

• Icelandic: handbók f, vasakver n, uppsláttarkver n
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• Ido: vade-mecum (io)
• Polish: vademecum (pl) n, wademekum (pl) n
• Portuguese: vade-mécum m or f, manual (pt) m, apostila f
• Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo), спра́вочник (ru) m (správočnik)
• Spanish: vademécum (es) m, manual (es) m
• Turkish: el kitabı (tr)

useful object

• Icelandic: handargagn n, handhægur hlutur m
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• Ido: vade-mecum (io)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} vade-mecum (fr) m
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