Vade mecum means "walk with me" or "go with me."
This phrase is often used for something that you keep with you or carry around as a reference.
"I love my iPhone. It has become my vade mecum for everything!"
Robert Hooper has written: 'Hoopers' physician's vade mecum' '(The physician's vade-mecum'
A. Valgimigli has written: 'Tourist's vade mecum of Italian colloquial conversation'
E. Blewer has written: 'The stock-broker's vade-mecum'
In Latin "vade" means "go" and "mecum" "with me". So the expression "go with me". It is used to name a conjunct of the main or basic books of the same area, e.g. : "LAW VADE MECUM": contains the Constituition, the Civil Code, Penal Code etc.I don't know what is the relation between the expression itself and the meaning it expresses.
Margaret Amanda Pattison has written: 'The emigrant's vade-mecum, or, Guide to the \\'
Arthur Bolles Lee has written: 'The microtomist's vade-mecum (Bolles Lee)'
Camille Lacome has written: 'Vade-mecum du motocycliste' -- subject(s): Motor scooters, Motorcycles
Jean-Bernard Daeppen has written: 'Vade mecum d'alcoologie' -- subject(s): Alcoolisme, Consommation d'alcool
John Playford has written: 'Vade mecum: or, The necessary companion' -- subject(s): Early works to 1800, Ready-reckoners, Roads, Handbooks, manuals, etc, Handbooks, vade-mecums, Handbooks, manuals
Alfonso Castellano has written: 'Vade-mecum del funzionario di dogana in aeroporto' -- subject(s): Law and legislation, Tariff
G. E. Stuart Whatley has written: 'The accountant's & bookkeeper's vade mecum..' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Accounting, Bookkeeping
Louis Sirol has written: 'Vade mecum du magistrat du parquet d'instance' -- subject(s): Criminal procedure, Forms, Handbooks, manuals, Public prosecutors