different between memento vs autobiography

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mement? (“remember”), imperative form of memin? (“I remember”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??m?nto?/
• Rhymes: -?nt??

Noun

memento (plural mementos or mementoes)

1. A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

   I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.

Usage notes

• The spelling momento is so common that some references now no longer consider it a misspelling.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ???????
• ? Marathi: ?????? (meme?o)

Synonyms

• keepsake
• souvenir
• (plural): memorabilia

Translations

References

• “memento” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. (usage note)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mement?.

Noun

memento m (plural mementi)

1. memento, keepsake
2. warning

Further reading

• memento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me?men.to?/, [m??m?n?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me?men.to/, [m??m?n?t??]

Verb

mement?

1. second-person singular future active imperative of memin?

References

• memento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Romanian

Etymology

From French mémento

Noun

memento n (uncountable)

1. memento

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /memento/
• Hyphenation: me?men?to

Noun

memento m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. memento

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mement?.

Noun

memento m (plural mementos)

1. memento

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

auto- +? biography

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.t?.ba????.??.fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

autobiography (countable and uncountable, plural autobiographies)

1. (countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
2. (uncountable) Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.

Synonyms

• memoir
• life story

Antonyms

• heterobiography

Hypernyms

• biography

Derived terms

• autobiographical, autobiographically

Related terms

• biography

Translations

Anagrams

• bioautography