mentagra

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mentum (chin) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, a catching).

Noun[edit]

mentagra (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, archaic) sycosis

References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

mentāgra f (genitive mentāgrae); first declension

  1. An eruption on the chin

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mentāgra mentāgrae
Genitive mentāgrae mentāgrārum
Dative mentāgrae mentāgrīs
Accusative mentāgram mentāgrās
Ablative mentāgrā mentāgrīs
Vocative mentāgra mentāgrae

References[edit]

  • mentagra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mentagra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.