mentio

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See also: mentió and mentío

Ido

Etymology

From mentiar (to lie) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

Noun

mentio (plural mentii)

  1. lie (deliberate, expressed untruth)

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From meminī +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

mentiō f (genitive mentiōnis); third declension

  1. mention, a calling to mind

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mentiō mentiōnēs
Genitive mentiōnis mentiōnum
Dative mentiōnī mentiōnibus
Accusative mentiōnem mentiōnēs
Ablative mentiōne mentiōnibus
Vocative mentiō mentiōnēs

Descendants

References

  • mentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mentio 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)
  • mentio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to mention a thing: mentionem facere alicuius rei or de aliqua re
    • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentionem inicere de aliqua re or Acc. c. Inf.
    • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: in mentionem alicuius rei incidere
    • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentio alicuius rei incidit