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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “menta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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

From Latin mentha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛntə/

menta f

1. mint

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, 2012–2025
• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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)

• menta in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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): [ˈmɛn.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn̪.t̪a]

From Ancient Greek μῐ́νθη (mĭ́nthē), 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, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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]

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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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024