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): (Valencia) [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

Inherited from Latin menta.

menta f (plural mentes) (ORB, broad)

1. mint

• menthe in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• menta in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• amenta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnta/ [ˈmɛ̃n̪.t̪ɐ], /ˈmenta/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛnta, -enta

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, 2012–2024
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “amenta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “amenta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “menta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “amenta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “menta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “menta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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)

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

• 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 Latin) 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^[1], 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]

• Audio (Colombia):

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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:  

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

• “menta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28