mento

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)

1. a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices.
   • 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 19:

     Musician who never meet before the journey entertain we with mento song.

2. an individual mento song.

• Monet, Monte, Moten, meton., monte

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmen.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmen.to]

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

• IPA^(key): [ˈmento]

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: men‧to

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

1. mint (plant)

• pipromento

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/

mento (plural menti)

1. mind, mentality

• mentala

mento (plural mentos)

1. chin

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: mén‧to

mento m (plural menti)

1. (anatomy) chin, mentum

See mentire.

• mentisco

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: mèn‧to

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentire

• Monte, monte

From mentum (“chin”) +‎ -o (suffix forming related nouns).

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

mentō m (genitive mentōnis); third declension

1. a man or woman with a prominent chin
2. dative/ablative singular of mentum

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mentō	mentōnēs
Genitive	mentōnis	mentōnum
Dative	mentōnī	mentōnibus
Accusative	mentōnem	mentōnēs
Ablative	mentōne	mentōnibus
Vocative	mentō	mentōnēs

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Likely borrowed from Latin mentum.

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: men‧to

mento m (plural mentos)

1. chin (bottom of a face)

   Synonym: queixo