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Is mentum a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word mentum is a Scrabble US word. The word mentum is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is mentum a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word mentum is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

M3E1N1T1U1M3

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Yes. The word mentum is a Words With Friends word. The word mentum is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

MENTUM,

5-letter words (1 found)

UNMET,

4-letter words (6 found)

MENT,MENU,MUNT,MUTE,NEUM,TUNE,

3-letter words (16 found)

EMU,MEM,MEN,MET,MEU,MUM,MUN,MUT,NET,NUT,TEN,TUM,TUN,UME,UMM,UTE,

2-letter words (12 found)

EM,EN,ET,ME,MM,MU,NE,NU,TE,UM,UN,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 37 words from mentum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mentum

mentum

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mentum (“the chin”). Doublet of menton.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛn.təm/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəm

Noun

mentum (plural menta)

  1. (anatomy) The chin.
  2. (malacology) A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks.
  3. (entomology) The central part of the labium in insects.
  4. (botany) A projection in front of the flower in some orchids.

Derived terms

  • postmentum
  • prementum
  • submentum

Related terms

  • mental
  • mento-

References

  • “mentum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “mentum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • nummet

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mentom, from Proto-Indo-European *men-to-, from *men- (“to project”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *munþaz.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.tum/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.tum/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

mentum n (genitive mentī); second declension

  1. (literally) the chin; the chin with the hair that grows on it; the beard
  2. (transferred sense, architecture) the projecting part of a cornice casting off the rain, the coping

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *mentō, *mentōnem
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Ligurian: manton, menton
      • Piedmontese: manton, menton
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Old French: menton, mentun
        • French: menton
        • → Spanish: mentón
    • Occitano-Romance:
      • Catalan: mentó
      • Occitan: menton
  • → English: mentum (learned)
  • → Italian: mento (learned)
  • → Portuguese: mento (learned)
  • Sicilian: mentu

Further reading

  • “mentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • mentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Source: wiktionary.org