memo

memo

See also: Memo and mémo

English

Etymology

Clipping of memorandum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛməʊ̯/

• Audio (Southern England)

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

Noun

memo (plural memos)

1. A short note; a memorandum.
   • 2007, John Yoo, War by Other Means […] , Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 42:

     According to yet another leaked memo, Powell responded the next day. Powell's leaked memo conceded that al Qaeda were not POWs, and that the Taliban individually or as a group might also lose their entitlement to that status.

2. (programming) A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
   • 2020, Daniel Zingaro, Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     The first is that the recursive call finds its subproblem solution in the memo and returns immediately.

Derived terms

• get the memo
• memoization
• memoize

Translations

a short note

Chinese: Mandarin: 備忘錄／备忘录 (zh) (bèiwànglù), 便箋／便笺 (zh) (biànjiān), 字條／字条 (zh) (zìtiáo) 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) Ukrainian: запи́ска f (zapýska), циду́ла f (cydúla), мемора́ндум m (memorándum)

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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Chinese

Etymology

From English memo.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mi¹ mou²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mi¹ mou²
    • Yale: mī móu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mi¹ mou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: mi¹ mou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miː⁵⁵ mou̯³⁵/

Noun

memo

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) memo (short note) (Classifier: 張／张 c)

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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]
• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: me‧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