Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌveɪdi ˈmiːkəm/, /ˌvɑːdi ˈmeɪkəm/
- Rhymes: -iːkəm, -eɪkəm
- Hyphenation: va‧de me‧cum
Noun
vade mecum (plural vade mecums)
- A referential book such as a handbook or manual, especially one that is pocketable.
- A useful object, constantly carried on one's person.
Translations
referential book
- Arabic: كتاب تعليمي
- Dutch: vademecum (nl) n
- Finnish: käsikirja (fi), opaskirja (fi), opas (fi), vade mecum (fi)
- French: vade-mecum (fr) m (traditional orthography), vadémécum (fr) m (1990 revised orthography)
- Georgian: სახელმძღვანელო (saxelmʒɣvanelo), ცნობარი (cnobari)
- German: Vademecum (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἐγχειρίδιον n (enkheirídion)
- Hungarian: zsebkönyv (hu), kisokos (hu), kalauz (hu), tájékoztató (hu), vademecum (hu)
- Icelandic: handbók (is) f, vasakver n, uppsláttarkver n
- Ido: vade-mecum (io)
- Italian: vademecum (it) m
- Polish: vademecum (pl) n, wademekum (pl) n
- Portuguese: vade-mécum m or f, manual (pt) m, apostila (pt) f
- Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo), спра́вочник (ru) m (správočnik)
- Spanish: vademécum (es) m, manual (es) m
- Turkish: el kitabı (tr)
- Ukrainian: довідни́к (uk) m (dovidnýk), інстру́кція (instrúkcija)
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useful object
- French: vade-mecum (fr) m (traditional orthography), vadémécum (fr) m (1990 revised orthography)
- Icelandic: handargagn n, handhægur hlutur m
- Ido: vade-mecum (io)
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