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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