mentio

See also: mentió and mentío

Ido

Etymology

From mentiar (“to lie”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.ti̯(.)o/

Noun

mentio (plural mentii)

1. lie (deliberate, expressed untruth)

Derived terms

• mentioza

Related terms

• mentiar

Latin

Etymology

From meminī +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.ti.oː/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.t͡si.o/, [ˈmɛnt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

mentiō f (genitive mentiōnis); third declension

1. mention, a calling to mind

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mentiō	mentiōnēs
Genitive	mentiōnis	mentiōnum
Dative	mentiōnī	mentiōnibus
Accusative	mentiōnem	mentiōnēs
Ablative	mentiōne	mentiōnibus
Vocative	mentiō	mentiōnēs

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mentionica
  • Franco-Provençal: mençongi
  • French: mensonge
  • Old Catalan: mençónega, monçónega, mensonja, mençonga, monçonga
  • Occitan: mensonja
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mentionia
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: minciunã
    • Romanian: minciună
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: menzogna
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: mensoigne
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: mensonya
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: menció
  • → English: mention
  • → French: mention
  • → Italian: menzione
  • → Occitan: menson
  • → Portuguese: menção
  • → Romanian: mențiune
  • → Spanish: mención

References

• “mentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mentio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mentio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to mention a thing: mentionem facere alicuius rei or de aliqua re
    
  • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentionem inicere de aliqua re or Acc. c. Inf.
    
  • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: in mentionem alicuius rei incidere
    
  • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentio alicuius rei incidit