menta

See also: mentá, mentă, and -menta

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.tə/
Rhymes: -ɛntə

Noun

menta

plural of mentum

Anagrams

Manet, Nemat, ament, ant'em, antem, manet, meant, menat, nemat-

Asturian

Verb

menta

first/third-person singular present subjunctive of mentir

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin menta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

menta f (plural mentes)

mint (plant of the genus Mentha)
crème de menthe (liqueur flavoured with mint)

Hyponyms

herba-sana d'aigua (“water mint”)
menta bergamota (“orange mint”)
menta borda (“applemint”)
menta boscana (“horsemint”)
menta de gat (“catnip”)
menta pebrera (“peppermint”)
menta verda (“spearmint”)
poliol (“pennyroyal”)

Related terms

mendastre

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

matak, méentag

Etymology

From Old High German mānitag, from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag (literally “day of the moon”), a calque of Latin diēs Lūnae. Cognate with Dutch maandag, English Monday, German Montag, Icelandic mánudagur, Swedish måndag.

Noun

menta ?

(Luserna) Monday

References

Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Galician

Alternative forms

amenta

Etymology 1

From Latin menta, mentha, from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnta̝/, /ˈmenta̝/

Noun

menta f (plural mentas)

mint (any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae)
spearmint (Mentha spicata)
Synonym: hortelá
mint tea

Derived terms

menta da cobra

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnta̝/, /ˈmenta̝/

Noun

menta f (plural mentas)

whelk (Buccinum undatum)
Synonym: bucio
periwinkle (Littorina littorea)
Synonyms: caramuxo, mentiña, mincha
top sea snail (Clelandella miliaris)
Synonyms: carlou, mentiña

References

“menta” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
“amenta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“amenta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“menta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“amenta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“menta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“menta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:

menta

Wikipedia ^hu

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin menta, from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):
Hyphenation: men‧ta
Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

menta (plural menták)

mint (any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	menta	menták
accusative	mentát	mentákat
dative	mentának	mentáknak
instrumental	mentával	mentákkal
causal-final	mentáért	mentákért
translative	mentává	mentákká
terminative	mentáig	mentákig
essive-formal	mentaként	mentákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mentában	mentákban
superessive	mentán	mentákon
adessive	mentánál	mentáknál
illative	mentába	mentákba
sublative	mentára	mentákra
allative	mentához	mentákhoz
elative	mentából	mentákból
delative	mentáról	mentákról
ablative	mentától	mentáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	mentáé	mentáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	mentáéi	mentákéi

Possessive forms of menta
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	mentám	mentáim
2nd person sing.	mentád	mentáid
3rd person sing.	mentája	mentái
1st person plural	mentánk	mentáink
2nd person plural	mentátok	mentáitok
3rd person plural	mentájuk	mentáik

Derived terms

mentás

Compound words

Expressions

References

^ menta in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mentha, from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmen.ta/
Rhymes: -enta
Hyphenation: mén‧ta

Noun

menta f (plural mente)

mint (plant and herb)
peppermint (confection)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.ta/
Rhymes: -ɛnta
Hyphenation: mèn‧ta

Verb

menta

inflection of mentire:
1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

-mante

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.ta/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.ta/,

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μῐ́νθη (mínthē), ultimately most likely a loan-word from an extinct (substrate) Mediterranean/south European language. See Armenian մանդակ (mandak) for more.

Alternative forms

mentha, mintha

Noun

menta f (genitive mentae); first declension

the mint (plant)
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.729:
  an tibi quondam femineos artus in olentes vertere mentas,

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	menta	mentae
Genitive	mentae	mentārum
Dative	mentae	mentīs
Accusative	mentam	mentās
Ablative	mentā	mentīs
Vocative	menta	mentae

Derived terms

Related terms

mentula

Descendants

Descendants of menta in other languages

→ Catalan: menta
→ Cimbrian: menta
→ Galician: menta
→ Greek: μέντα (ménta)
→ Hungarian: menta
→ Italian: menta
Old French:
- French: menthe
  - Haitian Creole: mant
  - → Romanian: mentă
- Norman: menthe
→? Old Irish: minntus
- Irish: miontas
→ Portuguese: menta
→ Proto-Slavic: *męta (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-West Germanic: *mintā (see there for further descendants)
→ Sicilian: menta
→ Spanish: menta

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

menta n

nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mentum

References

“menta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“menta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
menta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to see with the mind's eye: oculis mentis videre aliquid
- (ambiguous) to be of sane mind: mentis compotem esse
- (ambiguous) to be of sound mind: sanae mentis esse
- (ambiguous) to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere
- (ambiguous) to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15)
- (ambiguous) to lose one's head, be beside oneself: sui (mentis) compotem non esse
- (ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin menta, mentha, from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmẽ.tɐ/

Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
Hyphenation: men‧ta

Noun

menta f (plural mentas)

mint (any plant of the family Lamiaceae)
mint (flavouring extracted from the mint plant)

Synonyms

hortelã

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin menta, mentha (compare Catalan menta, French menthe, Italian menta), from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmenta/
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -enta
Syllabification: men‧ta

Noun

menta f (plural mentas)

(botany) mint, peppermint (specifically mentha × piperita)
Synonym: hierba buena
mint green (color/colour)
menta:

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text)
blanco	gris	negro
rojo; carmín, carmesí	naranja, anaranjado; marrón	amarillo; crema
lima	verde	menta
cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo	celeste, cerúleo	azul
violeta; añil, índigo	magenta; morado, púrpura	rosa, rosado

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