menta

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.tə/
• Rhymes: -ɛntə

menta

1. plural of mentum

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

menta

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of mentir

Inherited from Latin menta.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmen.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈmen.ta]

menta f (plural mentes)

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

• mendastre

• “menta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “menta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “menta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “menta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• matak, méentag

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.

menta ?

1. (Luserna) Monday

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

• amenta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnta̝/, /ˈmenta̝/

menta f (plural mentas)

1. mint (any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae)
2. spearmint (Mentha spicata)

   Synonym: hortelá

3. mint tea

• menta da cobra

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnta̝/, /ˈmenta̝/

menta f (plural mentas)

1. whelk (Buccinum undatum)

   Synonym: bucio

2. periwinkle (Littorina littorea)

   Synonyms: caramuxo, mentiña, mincha

3. top sea snail (Clelandella miliaris)

   Synonyms: carlou, mentiña

• “menta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “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.

Borrowed from Latin menta, from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛntɒ]
• Hyphenation: men‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

menta (plural menták)

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

• menta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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

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

menta f (plural mente)

1. mint (plant and herb)
2. peppermint (confection)

• menta piperita
• verde menta

• menta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

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

menta

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

• -mante

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.ta/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.ta/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ä]

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.

• mentha, mintha

menta f (genitive mentae); first declension

1. the mint (plant)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.729:

     an tibi quondam femineos artus in olentes vertere mentas, […]

First-declension noun.

• mentastrum
• mentiōsus

• mentula

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

menta n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mentum

• “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
    

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

• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Hyphenation: men‧ta

menta f (plural mentas)

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

• hortelã

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmenta/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: men‧ta

menta f (plural mentas)

1. (botany) mint, peppermint (specifically mentha × piperita)

   Synonym: hierba buena

2. mint green (color/colour)

   menta:  

• “menta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014