Other forms: mementos, mementoes
A memento is a small object kept to remind you of somebody or something. A memento of the trip, keep it as a memento, treasured mementos.
Its value is entirely in the association: a ticket stub, a pebble, a programme. The plural is mementos or mementoes, both accepted. Memento mori is the fixed Latin phrase for an object reminding you that you will die — a skull in a painting, a ring with a coffin on it. Note that memento is often misspelt momento by association with moment, which is a different word entirely.
1nounmementoA small object kept to remind you of somebody or something.
“She kept the ticket as a memento of their first date.”
memento is a keepsake.
Latin memento is the imperative of meminisse, to remember — it means simply remember. Memory, memoir and comment come from the same remembering.
Latin
mementō — remember
English, today
memento
Built from
Borrowed from Latin mementō (“remember”), imperative form of meminī (“to remember”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA