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Learned borrowing from Latin memorandum, neuter of memorandus (“to be remembered”).

memorandum (plural memorandums or memoranda)

A short note serving as a reminder.
- 1821, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
  ....be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so many weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to it as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda against this parting interview; and my final anxieties being spent in comforting her with hopes, and in pressing upon her the necessity of getting some medicines for a violent cough and hoarseness with which she was troubled, I wholly forgot it until it was too late to recall her.
A written business communication.
- 2025 July 28, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, “Trump administration allows federal workers to promote religious beliefs”, in CNN‎:
  The Trump administration will allow federal workers to promote their religious beliefs to colleagues, display religious items at work and pray together or individually, according to a memorandum issued Monday by the Office of Personnel Management.
A brief diplomatic communication.
A page in an annual publication honoring the memory of a person who died during the past year.

short note serving as a reminder

Arabic: مُذَكِرَة (muḏakirah)
Bulgarian: беле́жка (bg) f (beléžka), запи́ска (bg) f (zapíska)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 備忘錄 / 备忘录 (zh) (bèiwànglù)
Estonian: meelespea (et)
Finnish: muistio (fi)
French: mémorandum (fr) m
German: Memorandum (de) n
Greek: μνημόνιο (el) n (mnimónio), υπόμνημα (el) n (ypómnima)
Ancient: ὑπόμνημα n (hupómnēma)
Hindi: याददाश्त (hi) f (yāddāśt)
Japanese: メモ (ja) (memo), 備忘録 (ja) (びぼうろく, bibōroku), 忘備録 (ぼうびろく, bōbiroku)
Korean: 비망록(備忘錄) (ko) (bimangnok), 메모 (ko) (memo)
Macedonian: бе́лешка f (béleška), за́писка f (zápiska)
Norwegian: promemoria m or n
Ottoman Turkish: تذكره (tezkere), پوصوله (pusula)
Polish: notatka (pl) f, zapisek (pl) m
Portuguese: lembrete (pt) m
Russian: заме́тка (ru) f (zamétka), запи́ска (ru) f (zapíska), мемора́ндум (ru) m (memorándum)
Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachan m
Sindhi: ياداشاتنامو
Spanish: memorándum (es) m
Swedish: promemoria (sv) c
Tagalog: paandam, sulat-paalaala
Turkish: muhtıra (tr)
Welsh: cofnod (cy) m

written business communication

Chinese:
Mandarin: 備忘錄 / 备忘录 (zh) (bèiwànglù)
Finnish: muistio (fi)
French: mémorandum (fr) m
German: Memorandum (de) n
Greek: μνημόνιο (el) n (mnimónio), υπόμνημα (el) n (ypómnima)
Japanese: 覚書 (ja) (おぼえがき, oboegaki)
Korean: 비망록(備忘錄) (ko) (bimangnok)
Portuguese: memorando (pt) m
Russian: служе́бная запи́ска f (služébnaja zapíska), докладна́я запи́ска f (dokladnája zapíska), докладна́я (ru) f (dokladnája)
Sindhi: ياداشاتنامو
Spanish: memorándum (es) m
Tagalog: paandam

brief diplomatic communication

Armenian: հուշագիր (hy) (hušagir)
Belarusian: мемара́ндум m (mjemarándum), мэмара́ндум m (memarándum), но́та f (nóta)
Bulgarian: но́та (bg) f (nóta)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 照會 / 照会 (zh) (zhàohuì)
Finnish: muistio (fi)
French: mémorandum (fr) m
German: Memorandum (de) n
Greek: μνημόνιο (el) n (mnimónio), υπόμνημα (el) n (ypómnima)
Japanese: 覚書 (ja) (おぼえがき, oboegaki)
Macedonian: но́та f (nóta), мемора́ндум m (memorándum)
Polish: memorandum (pl) n
Portuguese: memorando (pt) m
Russian: мемора́ндум (ru) m (memorándum), (дипломати́ческая) но́та (ru) f (nóta)
Sindhi: ياداشاتنامو
Spanish: memorándum (es) m
Swedish: promemoria (sv) c
Tagalog: paandam
Ukrainian: мемора́ндум m (memorándum), но́та (uk) f (nóta)

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