mento

See also: mentó, mentő, and -mento

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

Noun

mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)

1. a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices
2. an individual mento song

Anagrams

• Monet, Monte, Moten, meton., monte

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

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Catalan

Verb

mento

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmento/
• Hyphenation: men‧to
• Rhymes: -ento

Noun

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

1. mint (plant)

Derived terms

• pipromento

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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

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Interlingua

Noun

mento (plural mentos)

1. chin

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Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnto/

Noun

mento m (plural menti)

1. (anatomy) chin, mentum

Related terms

• mentale
• mentoniero

 

Etymology 2

See mentire.

Alternative forms

• mentisco

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnto/

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentire

Anagrams

• monte

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) mentō

1. dative singular of mentum
2. ablative singular of mentum

References

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mentum.

Noun

mento m (plural mentos)

1. chin (bottom of a face)

   Synonym: queixo