mentira

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mentira”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

mentira f (plural mentires)

1. lie (intentionally false statement)

• mentir

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ti.ʁa/

mentira

1. third-person singular simple future of mentir

• marient, martien, Martien, Martine, minaret, termina

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie (intentionally false statement)

• mentir
• mentireiro

• “mentira” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From Portuguese mentira and Spanish mentira and Kabuverdianu mintira.

mentira

1. lie

From Old Portuguese mentira, from mentir (“to lie”), from Latin mentiri, present active infinitive of mentior, denominal verb from mēns, mentis (“mind”) in which the meaning "to lie" stems from a semantic shift "to be inventive, have second thoughts" > "to lie, conjure up", from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from *men- (“to think”) +‎ *-tis.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mẽ.ˈti.ɾɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mẽ.ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/, /mĩ.ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /mĩ.ˈti.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: men‧ti‧ra

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie (intentionally untrue statement)

• falsidade (more formal), balela (slang), lorota (slang), inverdade (usually euphemistic), fábula (euphemistic), patranha, desverdade (obsolete, rare)

• verdade

• mentirinha, mentirazinha (diminutives)
• mentirona (augmentative)
• de mentira
• mentira branca
• mentira tem perna curta
• mentiroso

• mentir

mentira

1. (informal) I mean (used to correct a piece of information)

   Eu comprei trinta... mentira, vinte, tomates.

   I bought thirty... I mean, twenty, tomatoes.

• quer dizer, digo, quero dizer

mentira

1. first-person singular (eu) pluperfect indicative of mentir
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) pluperfect indicative of mentir

From mentir (“to lie”).

• IPA^(key): /menˈtiɾa/, [mẽn̪ˈt̪iɾa]
• Hyphenation: men‧ti‧ra

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie, trick, falsity

   Parecía mentira que su cuerpo fuera tan hermoso.

   It was unbelievable how beautiful her body was.

• mentir (verb)
• mentiroso

• embuste m
• patraña f
• trufa f