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memoriale

memorial, memoir

noun meh-moh-RYAH-leh Rare
Arts & Culture Literature

Usage Note

Memoriale can refer to a physical monument (un memoriale ai caduti — 'a memorial to the fallen') or a written memoir/petition (il memoriale del prigioniero — 'the prisoner's written account'). It is masculine despite ending in -e, like many Italian nouns of Latin origin. Not to be confused with memoria ('memory').

Examples

"Hanno inaugurato un memoriale alle vittime."

Natural Translation

They inaugurated a memorial to the victims.

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