# amento
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈmento]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ento
* Hyphenation: a‧men‧to

### Noun

amento (accusative singular amenton, plural amentoj, accusative plural amentojn)
* (botany) amentum, catkin (type of inflorescence)
** Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book 2, Chapter 21,
    Sub la salikoj, sub ties branĉoj prezentantaj delikatajn, lanugajn amentojn klare videblajn en la lunlumo, dikmuzelaj ranoj sidis en du vicoj
       Under the willow branches, hung with tender, fluffy tassels clearly visible in the moonlight, sat two rows of fat-jowled frogs. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)

## Galician
### Verb

amento
* first-person singular present indicative of amentar

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin āmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈmɛn.to/, /aˈmen.to/
* Rhymes: -ɛnto, -ento
* Hyphenation: a‧mèn‧to, a‧mén‧to

### Noun

amento m (plural amenti)
* (botany) ear, spike (the fruiting body of a grain plant)
    Synonym: infiorescenza a spiga

### Further reading

* amento in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* amento in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* amento in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* amento in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* amento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Moneta, a monte, menato, metano, moneta, nemato-, nomate, temano

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* ammentō

### Etymology

From āmentum (“strap, thong”) +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /aːˈmen.toː/, [äːˈmɛn̪t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /aˈmen.to/, [äˈmɛn̪t̪o]

### Verb

āmentō (present infinitive āmentāre, perfect active āmentāvī, supine āmentātum); first conjugation
* to furnish with a strap or thong
* to hurl, dart or speed on something by using or as if by using a thong

#### Derived terms

* āmentātus

### References

* “amento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* amento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin āmentum.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈmẽ.tu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈmẽ.tu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aˈmẽ.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈmẽ.tu/
* Rhymes: -ẽtu
* Hyphenation: a‧men‧to

### Noun

amento m (plural amentos)
* (botany) catkin (botany: a type of inflorescence)
    Synonym: amentilho

### Further reading

* “amento”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “amento”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “amento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “amento”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “amento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈmento/ [aˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ento
* Syllabification: a‧men‧to

### Noun

amento m (plural amentos)
* catkin

#### Related terms

* amiento

### Further reading

* “amento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10