mentira

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mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mentira”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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mentira f (plural mentires)

1. lie (intentionally false statement)

• mentir

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ti.ʁa/

• Audio (CAN)

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mentira

1. third-person singular simple future of mentir

• marient, martien, Martien, Martine, minaret, termina

From Old Galician-Portuguese mentira, probably from mentir (“to lie”), from Latin mentiri, present active infinitive of mentior, denominal verb from mēns, mentis (“mind”) in which the meaning "to lie" stems from a semantic shift "to be inventive, have second thoughts" > "to lie, conjure up", from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from *men- (“to think”) +‎ *-tis.

• mintir

• IPA^(key): [menˈtiɾɐ]

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie, falsehood

• mentir
• mentireiro

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

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

mentira

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mentir

From Portuguese mentira and Spanish mentira and Kabuverdianu mintira.

mentira

1. lie (intentionally untrue statement)

• • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /mĩ.ˈti.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: men‧ti‧ra

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mentira, from mentir (“to lie”), from Latin mentīrī, denominal verb from mēns (“mind”), in which the meaning "to lie" stems from a semantic shift "to be inventive, have second thoughts" > "to lie, conjure up", from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from *men- (“to think”) +‎ *-tis.

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie (intentionally untrue statement)

   Synonyms: (more formal) falsidade, (slang) balela, (slang) lorota, (usually euphemistic) inverdade, (euphemistic) fábula, patranha, (obsolete, rare) desverdade

   Antonym: verdade

• mentirinha (diminutive), mentirazinha (diminutive)
• mentirona (augmentative)
• de mentira
• mentira branca
• mentira tem perna curta
• mentiroso

• mentir
• mentiroso

mentira

1. (informal) I mean (used to correct a piece of information)

   Synonyms: quer dizer, digo, quero dizer

   Eu comprei trinta... mentira, vinte, tomates.

   I bought thirty... I mean, twenty, tomatoes.

mentira

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mentir

From mentir (“to lie”).

• IPA^(key): /menˈtiɾa/ [mẽn̪ˈt̪i.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: men‧ti‧ra

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie, trick, falsity

   Parecía mentira que su cuerpo fuera tan hermoso.

   It was unbelievable how beautiful her body was.

• embuste m
• patraña f
• trufa f

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