mentalis

See also: mentális

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin mentālis, ellipsis of musculus mentālis (“the chin muscle”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɛnˈteɪ.lɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪlɪs

Noun

mentalis (plural mentales)

1. (anatomy) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin; it originates in the incisive fossa of the mandible, inserts in the skin of the chin, and raises the chin and pushes up the lower lip.

Related terms

• mental

Translations

muscle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頦肌／颏肌 (zh) (kējī, (Taiwan) háijī)

• Finnish: leuankärkilihas
• French: muscle mentonnier (fr) m
• German: Kinnmuskel m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 頤筋 (おとがいきん, otogaikin)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

References

• “mentalis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Simental, ailments, aliments, manliest, melanist, melastin, salt mine, saltmine, smaltine, talismen

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /menˈtaː.lis/, [mɛn̪ˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈta.lis/, [men̪ˈt̪äːlis]

Etymology 1

From mēns (“the mind, heart”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

mentālis (neuter mentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) mental (of the mind)

Inflection

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	mentālis	mentāle		mentālēs	mentālia
Genitive	mentālis			mentālium
Dative	mentālī			mentālibus
Accusative	mentālem	mentāle		mentālēs mentālīs	mentālia
Ablative	mentālī			mentālibus
Vocative	mentālis	mentāle		mentālēs	mentālia

Descendants

Descendants of mentalis in other languages

• → Asturian: mental
• → Catalan: mental
• → Galician: mental
• → German: mental
• → Italian: mentale
• → Middle French: mental
  • → English: mental
  • French: mental
• → Portuguese: mental
• → Romanian: mintal, mental
• Sicilian: mintali
• → Spanish: mental
• → Swedish: mental

Etymology 2

From mentum (“the chin”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

mentālis (neuter mentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) mental (of the chin)

Inflection

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	mentālis	mentāle		mentālēs	mentālia
Genitive	mentālis			mentālium
Dative	mentālī			mentālibus
Accusative	mentālem	mentāle		mentālēs mentālīs	mentālia
Ablative	mentālī			mentālibus
Vocative	mentālis	mentāle		mentālēs	mentālia

Descendants

• → English: mentalis

References

• “mentalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mentalis 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)