memorial

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1. Late Latin · derived frommemoriale
2. English todaymemorial

From Late Latin memoriale, neuter of memorialis. By surface analysis, memory + -ial.

First known use, by meaning

• 14th–18th c. Memory; recollection.
• from 14th c. Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered.
• from 14th c. A chronicle or memoir.
• from 14th c. A note or memorandum.
• from 15th c. A service of remembrance or commemoration.
• from 17th c. A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.