Mento

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Mento.

Proper noun

Mento (plural Mentos)

1. A surname from Italian.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mento is the 36585^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 611 individuals. Mento is most common among White (87.4%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mento”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 576.

Italian

Etymology

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Proper noun

Mento m or f by sense

1. a surname

Latin

Etymology

From mento (“person with a large chin”), from mentum (“chin”) +‎ -o (suffix forming nicknames and related nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪o]

Proper noun

Mentō m (genitive Mentōnis); third declension

1. a cognomen used by the gens Iulia

   Gaius Julius Mento

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Mentō	Mentōnēs
Genitive	Mentōnis	Mentōnum
Dative	Mentōnī	Mentōnibus
Accusative	Mentōnem	Mentōnēs
Ablative	Mentōne	Mentōnibus
Vocative	Mentō	Mentōnēs

References

• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.