mental

See also: mentál

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛntəl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Etymology 1

From Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis (“of the mind, mental”), from Latin mēns (“the mind”).

Adjective

mental (comparative more mental, superlative most mental)

  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.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:
      “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 or fun, especially in a frenetic way.
    That was a mental party last night.
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Etymology 2

1720-30; from Latin mentum (“chin”) + -al.

Adjective

mental (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
    Synonyms: genial, genian
    the mental nerve;  the mental region
  2. (biology) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.
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Translations

Noun

mental (plural mentals)

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin mentālis from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente +‎ -al.

Adjective

mental (epicene, plural mentales)

  1. mental

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to ment +‎ -al.

Adjective

mental (masculine and feminine plural mentals)

  1. mental

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English mental hospital.

Noun

mental

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

Verb

mental

  1. To send or commit to a mental hospital.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑ̃.tal/
  • audio(file)

Adjective

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

  1. mental (relating to the mind)

Noun

mental m (uncountable)

  1. mind
    Elle a un mental d'acier.

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente +‎ -al.

Adjective

mental m, f (plural mentais)

  1. mental

Derived terms

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mentālis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mental (not comparable)

  1. mental

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mentalis, from mens.

Adjective

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

  1. mental

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mentalis, from mens.

Adjective

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

  1. mental

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mental m, f (plural mentais, comparable)

  1. mental

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin mentālis, from Latin mēns; equivalent to mente +‎ -al.

Adjective

mental (plural mentales)

  1. mental

Derived terms

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin mentalis, from Latin mens.

Adjective

mental

  1. mental, pertaining to the mind

Declension

Inflection of mental
Indefinite 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 the predicative.
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