menta

See also: mentá, mentă, and -menta

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.tə/
• Rhymes: -ɛntə

Noun

menta

1. plural of mentum

Anagrams

• Manet, Nemat, ament, ant'em, antem, manet, meant, menat, nemat-

Asturian

Verb

menta

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

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin menta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmen.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmen.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

menta f (plural mentes)

1. mint (plant of the genus Mentha)
2. crème de menthe (liqueur flavoured with mint)

Hyponyms

• herba-sana d'aigua (“water mint”)
• menta bergamota (“orange mint”)
• menta borda (“applemint”)
• menta boscana (“horsemint”)
• menta de gat (“catnip”)
• menta pebrera (“peppermint”)
• menta verda (“spearmint”)
• poliol (“pennyroyal”)

Related terms

• mendastre

Further reading

• “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.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• matak, méentag

Etymology

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.

Noun

menta ?

1. (Luserna) Monday

References

• 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

Cornish

Etymology

From Latin mentha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛntə/

Noun

menta f

1. mint

Derived terms

• menta an dowr (“water mint”)
• menta aval (“apple mint”)
• menta riel (“pennyroyal”)
• menta wuwdhel (“spearmint, garden mint”)
• pubermenta (“peppermint”)

Mutation

Mutation of menta

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
menta	venta	unchanged	unchanged	fenta	venta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin menta.

Noun

menta f (plural mentes) (ORB, broad)

1. mint

References

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

Galician

Alternative forms

• amenta

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• menta da cobra

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnta̝/, /ˈmenta̝/

Noun

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

References

• “menta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “amenta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “amenta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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