mentigo

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Latin

Etymology

mentum (“the chin”) +‎ -īgō (“diseased condition”)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /menˈtiː.ɡoː/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈti.ɡo/,

Noun

mentīgō f (genitive mentīginis); third declension

a kind of eruption or scab on lambs
- ante AD 70, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (author), E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner (editors), Res Rustica in On Agriculture, volume II: Books V–IX (1954), book vii, chapter v, § 21, page 275:
  Est etiam mentigo, quam pastores ostiginem vocant, mortifera lactentibus.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mentīgō	mentīginēs
genitive	mentīginis	mentīginum
dative	mentīginī	mentīginibus
accusative	mentīginem	mentīginēs
ablative	mentīgine	mentīginibus
vocative	mentīgō	mentīginēs

Synonyms

(eruption or scab on lambs): ostīgō

References

“mentīgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
mentīgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 967/3.
“mentīgō” on page 1,100/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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