🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

carta di promemoria

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kar.ta di pro.meˈmo.ri.a

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cue-Card/ˈkjuː.kɑːrd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ha usato una carta di promemoria durante il suo discorso."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A card containing prompts or cues for a speaker, often used in presentations or performances.

    "The presenter glanced at her cue-card to remember the key points of her speech."
  2. 2

    A card used in various contexts to provide guidance or reminders.

    "He wrote down his lines on a cue-card to help him during the rehearsal."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'cue-card' combines 'cue', derived from the Latin 'cūa' meaning 'to signal', and 'card', which comes from the Latin 'charta' meaning 'paper'. The term evolved in the 20th century to refer to a card used to prompt speakers during presentations.

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