mente

From Latin mentem, singular accusative of mēns, from Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmente/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: men‧te

mente f (plural mentes)

1. mind (ability for rational thought)

• mental

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mente

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmente/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪ɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ente
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnte/ [ˈmɛ̃n̪.t̪ɪ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: men‧te

From Old Galician-Portuguese mente (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mentem, singular accusative of mēns, from Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

mente f (plural mentes)

1. mind

   Synonym: caletre

2. memory

   Synonym: memoria

• facer mentes (“to remind”)
• ter mentes (“to think; to intend”)

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

mente

1. third-person singular present indicative of mentir
2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of mentir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛntɛ]
• Hyphenation: men‧te
• Rhymes: -tɛ

From the men- stem of megy +‎ -te (noun-forming suffix).

mente

1. (often construed with -ben) leaving from somewhere

   Synonyms: távozás, elmenés

2. (often construed with -ben) going somewhere

   Synonyms: menetel, menés

3. (rare) the course, progress of something

   Synonyms: menet, lefolyás, lezajlás

4. the immediate neighborhood of a river, riverbank area

   Synonyms: part, környék, mellék, (as a noun) közel

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mente (plural menték)

2. (archaic) short (Hungarian) fur coat

• (leaving, going; riverbank): mente 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.
• (fur coat): mente 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.

mente (plural mentes)

1. mind

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.te/
• Rhymes: -ente
• Hyphenation: mén‧te

From Latin mentem, from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”).

mente f (plural menti)

1. mind

• mente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mente f

1. plural of menta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mente

1. third-person singular present indicative of mentire

mente

1. Rōmaji transcription of メンテ

mente f

1. ablative singular of mēns

mente

1. alternative form of mynte (“mint (plant)”)

mente

1. simple past of mene

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ẽtɨ, (most of Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi, (Southern Brazil) -ẽte
• Hyphenation: men‧te

From Old Galician-Portuguese mente, from Latin mentem (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”).

mente f (plural mentes)

1. mind (ability for rational thought)

   Synonyms: espírito, imaginação, intelecto, intuito

• vir a mente

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mente

1. inflection of mentir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Classical Latin mēns, mentem (“mind; intellect, thought”), from Proto-Italic *mentis, from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”). Compare Campidanese menti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.te/
• Hyphenation: mèn‧te

mente f (plural mentes) (Logudorese, Nuorese)

1. mind
2. memory

• ammentare

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mentem, from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”). Replaced the inherited Old Spanish form miente.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmente/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: men‧te

mente f (plural mentes)

1. mind, intellect

• “mente”, 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

• meten, temen, tenme