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
  2. an individual mento song

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

mento

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

mento

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of mentir

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmento]
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  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: men‧to

Noun

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

  1. mint (plant)

Derived terms

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

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

Etymology 2

See mentire.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mento

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mentire

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

mentō

  1. dative/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

Portuguese

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Latin mentum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.tu/

  • Rhymes: -ẽtu
  • Hyphenation: men‧to

Noun

mento m (plural mentos)

  1. chin (bottom of a face)
    Synonym: queixo
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