mento

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

Noun

mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)

1. A folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices.
2. An individual mento song.

Anagrams

• Monet, Monte, Moten, monte

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative form of mentir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/
• Hyphenation: men‧to

Noun

mento (accusative singular menton, plural mentoj, accusative plural mentojn)

1. mint (plant)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/

Noun

mento (plural menti)

1. mind, mentality

Noun

mento (plural mentos)

1. chin

Etymology 1

From Latin mentum, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project”).

Etymology 2

See mentire.

Anagrams

• monte

Noun

mentō

1. dative singular of mentum
2. ablative singular of mentum

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• mento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Etymology

From Latin mentum.

Noun

mento m (plural mentos)

1. chin (bottom of a face)