mentalis

Learned borrowing from New Latin mentālis, ellipsis of musculus mentālis (“the chin muscle”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɛnˈteɪ.lɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪlɪs

mentalis (plural mentales)

1. (anatomy) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin; it originates in the incisive fossa of the mandible, inserts in the skin of the chin, and raises the chin and pushes up the lower lip.

• mental

• “mentalis”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Simental, ailments, aliments, manliest, melanist, melastin, salt mine, saltmine, smaltine, talismen

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛnˈtaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [menˈtaː.lis]

From mēns (“the mind, heart”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

mentālis (neuter mentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) mental (of the mind)

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

From mentum (“the chin”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

mentālis (neuter mentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) mental (of the chin)

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• → English: mentalis

• “mentalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mentalis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)