English
aide-mémoire
Aide-mémoire comes from French aide-mémoire ‘aide-mémoire, memory-aid, crib’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentaide-mémoire‘aide-mémoire, memory-aid, crib’literally ‘memory aid’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentaide-mémoire‘aide-mémoire, memory-aid, crib’literally ‘memory aid’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013same form
Earliest quotation: 2013, Trinidad Express, IDB tells T&T: Fix procurement laws: “In August, Finance Minister Larry Howai signed an aide-mémoire…”
The story
Unadapted borrowing from French aide-mémoire (literally “memory aid”).
Every English word from French aide-mémoire
Today it means
noun A memory aid; a reminder or memorandum, especially a book or document serving this purpose.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French aide-mémoire / aide-mémoire