different between souvenir vs mementos

English

Etymology

From French souvenir (literally “memory”); compare memento.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sou?ve?nir
• IPA^(key): /?su?v??n??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

souvenir (plural souvenirs)

1. An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location.

   Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia

   • 2005, Steven Church, Guinness Book of Me, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 138:

     The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.

Alternative forms

• souvenier (obsolete)

Translations

Verb

souvenir (third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired)

1. (transitive) To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French souvenir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.v??nir/
• Hyphenation: sou?ve?nir

Noun

souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)

1. souvenir

Synonyms

• aandenken
• gedachtenis

French

Etymology

From Middle French soubvenir, from Old French sovenir, from Latin subven?re, present active infinitive of subveni? (“come to mind, occur to”), from sub + veni?. Doublet of subvenir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suv.ni?/

Verb

souvenir

1. (reflexive, transitive with de) to remember

   Synonym: rappeler

Conjugation

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).

Derived terms

• se souvenir

Noun

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

1. memory (mental picture)

2. souvenir

Descendants

Further reading

• “souvenir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French souvenir.

Noun

souvenir m (invariable)

1. souvenir

Anagrams

• universo

Further reading

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

Old French

Verb

souvenir

1. Alternative form of sovenir

Spanish

Etymology

From French souvenir.

Noun

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

1. souvenir

Further reading

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

English

Noun

mementos

1. plural of memento

Spanish

Noun

mementos m pl

1. plural of memento