mento
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
Noun
mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)
- a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices
- an individual mento song
Asturian
Catalan
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmento/
- Hyphenation: men‧to
- Rhymes: -ento
Ido
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/
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin mentum, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛnto/
Related terms
Etymology 2
See mentire.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛnto/
Latin
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
Portuguese
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