mentio

mentio

See also: mentió and mentío

Ido

Etymology

From mentiar (to lie) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmen.ti̯(.)o/

Noun

mentio (plural mentii)

  1. lie (deliberate, expressed untruth)

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

    From meminī + -tiō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mentiō f (genitive mentiōnis); third declension

    1. mention, a calling to mind

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative mentiō mentiōnēs
    genitive mentiōnis mentiōnum
    dative mentiōnī mentiōnibus
    accusative mentiōnem mentiōnēs
    ablative mentiōne mentiōnibus
    vocative mentiō mentiōnēs

    Descendants

    • Vulgar Latin: *mentionia
      • Balkano-Romance:
      • Italo-Romance:
      • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Gallo-Romance:
        • Old French: mensoigne
      • Ibero-Romance:
        • Aragonese: mensonya
    • Vulgar Latin: *mentionica
      • Gallo-Romance:
        • Northern:
          • Franco-Provençal: mençongi
          • French: mensonge
        • Southern:
          • Occitan: mensonja
          • Old Catalan: mençónega, monçónega, mensonja, mençonga, monçonga

    Borrowings:

    References

    • mentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • mentio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "mentio", 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)
    • mentio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to mention a thing: mentionem facere alicuius rei or de aliqua re
      • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentionem inicere de aliqua re or Acc. c. Inf.
      • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: in mentionem alicuius rei incidere
      • to mention a thing incidentally, casually: mentio alicuius rei incidit