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5-letter words (4 found)

AMENT,MANET,MEANT,MENTA,

4-letter words (15 found)

AMEN,ANTE,ETNA,MANE,MATE,MEAN,MEAT,MENT,META,NAME,NEAT,NEMA,TAME,TANE,TEAM,

3-letter words (22 found)

AME,ANE,ANT,ATE,EAN,EAT,ETA,MAE,MAN,MAT,MEN,MET,MNA,NAE,NAM,NAT,NET,TAE,TAM,TAN,TEA,TEN,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AM,AN,AT,EA,EM,EN,ET,MA,ME,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 56 words from menta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of menta

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Definitions and meaning of menta

menta

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): (Valencian) [ˈmen.ta]

Noun

menta f (plural mentes)

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

Hyponyms

Related terms

  • mendastre

Further reading

  • “menta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “menta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “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

Galician

Alternative forms

  • amenta

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛnta̝/, /ˈmenta̝/

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, Royal Galician Academy.
  • “amenta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “amenta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “menta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “amenta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “menta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “menta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin menta, from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛntɒ]
  • Hyphenation: men‧ta
  • Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

menta (plural menták)

  1. mint (any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • menta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmen.ta/
  • Rhymes: -enta
  • Hyphenation: mén‧ta

Noun

menta f (plural mente)

  1. mint (plant and herb)
  2. peppermint (confection)
Derived terms
  • menta piperita
  • verde menta

Further reading

  • menta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛn.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnta
  • Hyphenation: mèn‧ta

Verb

menta

  1. inflection of mentire:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • -mante

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.ta/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.ta/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ä]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μῐ́νθη (mínthē), ultimately most likely a loan-word from an extinct (substrate) Mediterranean/south European language. See Armenian մանդակ (mandak) for more.

Alternative forms

  • mentha, mintha

Noun

menta f (genitive mentae); first declension

  1. the mint (plant)
Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • mentastrum
  • mentiōsus
Related terms
  • mentula
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

menta n

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mentum

References

  • “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.

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
  • Hyphenation: men‧ta

Noun

menta f (plural mentas)

  1. mint (any plant of the family Lamiaceae)
  2. mint (flavouring extracted from the mint plant)

Synonyms

  • hortelã

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin menta, mentha (compare Catalan menta, French menthe, Italian menta), from Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmenta/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -enta
  • Syllabification: men‧ta

Noun

menta f (plural mentas)

  1. (botany) mint, peppermint (specifically mentha × piperita)
    Synonym: hierba buena
  2. mint green (color/colour)

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • “menta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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