mental

See also: mentál

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis (“of the mind, mental”), from Latin mēns (“the mind”). Also from Latin mentum (“the chin”), depending on usage.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛntəl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

AdjectiveEdit

mental (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:

     “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […], the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

   • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

2. (colloquial, comparable) Insane, mad, crazy.

   He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet.  He went mental on us.

3. (colloquial, Britain, comparable) Enjoyable; fun.

   That was a mental party last night.

4. (anatomy) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.

   the mental nerve;  the mental region

5. (biology) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.

SynonymsEdit

• genial (in the sense referring to the chin)
• genian (in the sense referring to the chin)

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• extramental
• intermental
• intramental
• mental age

• mental block
• mental disease
• mental home
• mental patient

• mentalese
• mentalist
• mentality
• mentally

TranslationsEdit

relating to the mind

• Arabic: عَقْلِيّ‎ (ʿaqliyy)
• Asturian: mental
• Catalan: mental (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精神的 (jīngshén de)

• Czech: duševní (cs)
• Dutch: geestelijk (nl), mentaal (nl)
• Finnish: henkinen (fi), mentaalinen, psyykkinen (fi)
• French: mental (fr)
• Galician: mental (gl)
• Georgian: გონებრივი (gonebrivi), მენტალური (menṭaluri)
• German: geistig (de), mental (de), psychisch (de), seelisch (de)
• Greek: διανοητικός (el) m (dianoitikós), πνευματικός (el) m (pnevmatikós), νοητικός (el) m (noitikós)

• Haitian Creole: mantal
• Italian: mentale (it)
• Japanese: 心の (ja) (こころの, kokoro no), 精神的 (せいしんてき, seishinteki)
• Korean: 정신의 (jeongsinui)
• Occitan: mental
• Polish: psychiczny (pl), umysłowy (pl)
• Portuguese: mental (pt)
• Romanian: mintal (ro), mental (ro) m, n
• Russian: у́мственный (ru) (úmstvennyj)
• Spanish: mental (es)
• Swedish: själslig (sv), psykisk (sv)
• Tagalog: isipnin
• Volapük: tikälik (vo)

relating to the chin

• Greek: πωγωνικός m (pogonikós), γενειακός m (geneiakós)
• Italian: mentale (it), mentoniero, genieno

• Volapük: cünik

relating to the chin-like structure

relating to a crazy person

• Greek: τρελός (el) m (trelós)
• Hungarian: elmebeteg (hu), elvetemült (hu)

• Italian: pazzo (it)

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} amatto

NounEdit

mental (plural mentals)

1. (zoology) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

Further readingEdit

• mental in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• mental in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• Lament., Mantle, lament, manlet, mantel, mantle

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AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mentālis.

AdjectiveEdit

mental (epicene, plural mentales)

1. mental

Related termsEdit

• mente

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mentālis.

AdjectiveEdit

mental (masculine and feminine plural mentals)

1. mental

Derived termsEdit

• mentalment

Related termsEdit

• ment

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CebuanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English mental hospital.

NounEdit

mental

1. A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body; a mental hospital.

VerbEdit

mental

1. To send or commit to a mental hospital.

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Late Latin mentālis (“of the mind, mental”).

PronunciationEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

mental (feminine singular mentale, masculine plural mentaux, feminine plural mentales)

1. mental (relating to the mind)

NounEdit

mental m (uncountable)

1. mind

   Elle a un mental d'acier.

AnagramsEdit

• lament, mêlant

Further readingEdit

• “mental” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mentālis.

AdjectiveEdit

mental m, f (plural mentais)

1. mental

Derived termsEdit

• mentalmente

Related termsEdit

• mente

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GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mentālis.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [mɛnˈtaːl]
• Rhymes: -aːl

AdjectiveEdit

mental (not comparable)

1. mental

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mental

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist mental	sie ist mental	es ist mental	sie sind mental
strong declension (without article)	nominative	mentaler	mentale	mentales	mentale
	genitive	mentalen	mentaler	mentalen	mentaler
	dative	mentalem	mentaler	mentalem	mentalen
	accusative	mentalen	mentale	mentales	mentale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der mentale	die mentale	das mentale	die mentalen
	genitive	des mentalen	der mentalen	des mentalen	der mentalen
	dative	dem mentalen	der mentalen	dem mentalen	den mentalen
	accusative	den mentalen	die mentale	das mentale	die mentalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein mentaler	eine mentale	ein mentales	(keine) mentalen
	genitive	eines mentalen	einer mentalen	eines mentalen	(keiner) mentalen
	dative	einem mentalen	einer mentalen	einem mentalen	(keinen) mentalen
	accusative	einen mentalen	eine mentale	ein mentales	(keine) mentalen

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mentalis, from mens

AdjectiveEdit

mental (neuter singular mentalt, definite singular and plural mentale)

1. mental

ReferencesEdit

• “mental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mentalis, from mens

AdjectiveEdit

mental (neuter singular mentalt, definite singular and plural mentale)

1. mental

ReferencesEdit

• “mental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mentālis.

PronunciationEdit

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mẽ.ˈtaɫ/
• Hyphenation: men‧tal

AdjectiveEdit

mental m, f (plural mentais, comparable)

1. mental

Derived termsEdit

• mentalmente

Related termsEdit

• mente

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mentālis.

AdjectiveEdit

mental (plural mentales)

1. mental

Derived termsEdit

• mentalmente

Related termsEdit

• mente
• mentalidad

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SwedishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mental

1. mental, pertaining to the mind

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of mental
Indefinite/attributive	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	mental	—	—
Neuter singular	mentalt	—	—
Plural	mentala	—	—
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	mentale	—	—
All	mentala	—	—
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role.

Related termsEdit

• mentalpatient
• mentalsjuk
• mentalsjukhus