-mento
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese -mento, from Latin -mentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmento/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪ʊ]
- Rhymes: -ento
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛnto/ [ˈmɛ̃n̪.t̪ʊ]
- Rhymes: -ɛnto
- Hyphenation: -men‧to
Suffix
[edit]-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)
- -ment; forms nouns from verbs, with the sense of "result, product (of process)"
Usage notes
[edit]- In function of the thematic vowel of the verb, and since the early documentation of the language, this suffix takes one the following forms: -amento, -emento or -imento. Note that in Portuguese these forms are just -amento and -imento.
Derived terms
[edit]Interlingua
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-mento
- forming concrete nouns from verbs, with the sense of 'result, product (of process)'
Derived terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -menti)
- forms nouns that represent the action of a related verb
- cambiare (“to change”) + -mento → cambiamento (“change (abstract)”)
- versare (“to pour”) + -mento → versamento (“pouring”)
Usage notes
[edit]- Terms formed with this suffix are invariably stressed on the penultimate syllable.
- Nouns formed from -ere verbs end in -imento.
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-mentō
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin -mentum, from Proto-Italic *-məntom, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom, from *-mn̥.
Suffix
[edit]-mento
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Viñas, Xoán López (2015), “-mento”, in “Dicionario de afixos e voces afixadas do galego medieval [Dictionary of Medieval Galician's affixes and affixed terms]”, in Revista Galega de Filoloxía[1] (in Galician), volume 8, A Coruña: UDC, →ISBN, page 193, line 2.1.25
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese -mento, from Latin -mentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ẽtu
- Hyphenation: men‧to
Suffix
[edit]-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “-mento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “-mento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “-mento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin -mentum. Doublet of -miento.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)
- -ment (the action or result of what is denoted by the verb)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “-mento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Categories:
- Galician terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Galician terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Galician terms derived from Latin
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- Galician terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/ento
- Rhymes:Galician/ento/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Galician/ɛnto
- Rhymes:Galician/ɛnto/2 syllables
- Galician lemmas
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- Galician countable suffixes
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- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Italic
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- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ento
- Rhymes:Italian/ento/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽtu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽtu/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
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- Spanish terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ento
- Rhymes:Spanish/ento/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish countable suffixes
- Spanish masculine suffixes