mento

See also: Mento, mentó, mentő, and -mento

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

Noun

mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)

1. a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices.
   • 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 19:

     Musician who never meet before the journey entertain we with mento song.

2. an individual mento song.

Anagrams

• Monet, Monte, Moten, meton., monte

Asturian

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmen.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmen.to]

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmento/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: men‧to

Noun

mento (accusative singular menton, plural mentoj, accusative plural mentojn)

1. mint (plant)

Derived terms

• pipromento

Further reading

• “mento”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “mento”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from Esperanto menso, Italian mente and Spanish mente, ultimately from Latin mēns. The Esperanto word was modified to reflect forms in natural languages and international derived terms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/

Noun

mento (plural menti)

1. mind, mentality

Derived terms

• mentala

Interlingua

Noun

mento (plural mentos)

1. chin

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mentum, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: mén‧to

Noun

mento m (plural menti)

1. (anatomy) chin, mentum

Related terms

• mentale
• mentoniero

Etymology 2

See mentire.

Alternative forms

• mentisco

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: mèn‧to

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentire

Anagrams

• Monte, monte

Latin

Etymology

From mentum (“chin”) +‎ -o (suffix forming related nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn.to]

Noun

mentō m (genitive mentōnis); third declension

1. a man or woman with a prominent chin
2. dative/ablative singular of mentum

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mentō	mentōnēs
genitive	mentōnis	mentōnum
dative	mentōnī	mentōnibus
accusative	mentōnem	mentōnēs
ablative	mentōne	mentōnibus
vocative	mentō	mentōnēs

Derived terms

• Mento

References

• “mento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mento", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mento”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Latin mentum.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmẽ.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmẽ.tu/

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: men‧to

Noun

mento m (plural mentos)

1. chin (bottom of a face)

   Synonym: queixo

Further reading

• “mento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026