lamémoire

feminine

/me.mwaʁ/

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Translation

memory

Word origin

From Latin memoria ('memory, remembrance'), from memor ('mindful, remembering'). The same root gives English 'memory' and 'memorial'.

Origin
Latin
Root
memoria
English cognates
memory, memorial

Grammar

Genderfeminine
Pluralmémoires

Examples

- extraordinaire.

My grandmother has an extraordinary memory.

J' .

I have kept this trip in my memory all my life.

' .

This computer no longer has enough memory.

récite poème hésiter.

He recites this poem from memory without hesitating.

l', défaut.

With age, his memory is beginning to fail him.

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This word is part of lesson 28.