mentalis

See also: mentális

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin mentālis, ellipsis of musculus mentālis (“the chin muscle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛnˈteɪ.lɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪlɪs

Noun

mentalis (plural mentales)

1. (anatomy) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin; it originates in the incisive fossa of the mandible, inserts in the skin of the chin, and raises the chin and pushes up the lower lip.

Related terms

• mental

Translations

muscle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頦肌／颏肌 (zh) (kējī), 颏肌 (zh) (kējī, (Taiwan) háijī)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 頤筋 (おとがいきん, otogaikin)

References

• “mentalis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Simental, ailments, aliments, manliest, melanist, melastin, salt mine, saltmine, smaltine, talismen

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /menˈtaː.lis/, [mɛn̪ˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈta.lis/, [men̪ˈt̪äːlis]

Etymology 1

From mēns (“the mind, heart”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

mentālis (neuter mentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) mental (of the mind)

Inflection

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	mentālis	mentāle		mentālēs	mentālia
Genitive	mentālis			mentālium
Dative	mentālī			mentālibus
Accusative	mentālem	mentāle		mentālēs mentālīs	mentālia
Ablative	mentālī			mentālibus
Vocative	mentālis	mentāle		mentālēs	mentālia

Descendants

• → Asturian: mental
• → Catalan: mental
• → Galician: mental
• → German: mental
• → Italian: mentale
• → Middle French: mental
  • → English: mental
  • French: mental
• → Portuguese: mental
• → Romanian: mintal, mental
• Sicilian: mintali
• → Spanish: mental
• → Swedish: mental

Etymology 2

From mentum (“the chin”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

mentālis (neuter mentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) mental (of the chin)

Inflection

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	mentālis	mentāle		mentālēs	mentālia
Genitive	mentālis			mentālium
Dative	mentālī			mentālibus
Accusative	mentālem	mentāle		mentālēs mentālīs	mentālia
Ablative	mentālī			mentālibus
Vocative	mentālis	mentāle		mentālēs	mentālia

Descendants

• → English: mentalis

References

• “mentalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mentalis 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)