mento
English edit
Etymology edit
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- Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
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mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)
- 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.
- an individual mento song.
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Asturian edit
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mento
Catalan edit
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mento
Esperanto edit
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Noun edit
mento (accusative singular menton, plural mentoj, accusative plural mentojn)
- mint (plant)
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Ido edit
Etymology edit
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.
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mento (plural menti)
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Interlingua edit
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mento (plural mentos)
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin mentum, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mento m (plural menti)
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Etymology 2 edit
See mentire.
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mento
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From mentum (“chin”) + -o (“forming related nouns”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.toː/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.to/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪o]
Noun edit
mentō m (genitive mentōnis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mentō | mentōnēs |
Genitive | mentōnis | mentōnum |
Dative | mentōnī | mentōnibus |
Accusative | mentōnem | mentōnēs |
Ablative | mentōne | mentōnibus |
Vocative | mentō | mentōnēs |
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References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Likely borrowed from Latin mentum.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ẽtu
- Hyphenation: men‧to
Noun edit
mento m (plural mentos)