# menta
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛn.tə/
* Rhymes: -ɛntə

### Noun

menta
* plural of mentum

### Anagrams

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

## Asturian
### Verb

menta
* first/third-person singular present subjunctive of mentir

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin menta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmen.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmen.ta]

### Noun

menta f (plural mentes)
* mint (plant of the genus Mentha)
* 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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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 ?
* (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

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin menta.

### Noun

menta f (plural mentes) (ORB, broad)
* 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: /ˈmɛnta/ [ˈmɛ̃n̪.t̪ɐ], /ˈmenta/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɛnta, -enta

#### Noun

menta f (plural mentas)
* mint (any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae)
* spearmint (Mentha spicata)
    Synonym: hortelá
* mint tea

##### Derived terms

* menta da cobra

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛnta̝/, /ˈmenta̝/

#### Noun

menta f (plural mentas)
* whelk (Buccinum undatum)
    Synonym: bucio
* periwinkle (Littorina littorea)
    Synonyms: caramuxo, mentiña, mincha
* 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
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “amenta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “amenta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛntɒ]
* Hyphenation: men‧ta
* Rhymes: -tɒ

### Noun

menta (plural menták)
* mint (any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae)

#### Derived terms

* mentás
* almamenta
* borsmenta
* csombormenta
* fodormenta
* lómenta
* macskamenta
* mocsárimenta
* polyákmenta
* zöldmenta
* mezei menta
* vízi menta

### References

* ↑ menta in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### 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: /ˈmen.ta/
* Rhymes: -enta
* Hyphenation: mén‧ta

#### Noun

menta f (plural mente)
* mint (plant and herb)
* peppermint (confection)

##### Derived terms

* menta piperita
* verde menta

#### Further reading

* menta in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛn.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɛnta
* Hyphenation: mèn‧ta

#### Verb

menta
* inflection of mentire:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* -mante

## Latin
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μῐ́νθη (mĭ́nthē), 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
* the mint (plant)
** 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.729:an tibi quondam femineos artus in olentes vertere mentas, […]

##### Inflection

First-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* mentastrum
* mentiōsus

##### Related terms

* mentula

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: menta
* → Cimbrian: menta
* → Galician: menta
* → Greek: μέντα (ménta)
* → Hungarian: menta
* → Italian: menta
* Old French:
** French: menthe
*** Haitian Creole: mant
*** → Romanian: mentă
** Norman: menthe
* →? Old Irish: minntus
** Irish: miontas
* → Portuguese: menta
* → Proto-Slavic: *męta (see there for further descendants)
* → Proto-West Germanic: *mintā (see there for further descendants)
* → Sicilian: menta
* → Spanish: menta

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

menta n
* 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, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to see with the mind's eye: oculis mentis videre aliquid (ambiguous) to be of sane mind: mentis compotem esse (ambiguous) to be of sound mind: sanae mentis esse (ambiguous) to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere (ambiguous) to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15) (ambiguous) to lose one's head, be beside oneself: sui (mentis) compotem non esse (ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmẽ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
* Hyphenation: men‧ta

### Noun

menta f (plural mentas)
* mint (any plant of the family Lamiaceae)
* 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: /ˈmenta/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪a]
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* Rhymes: -enta
* Syllabification: men‧ta

### Noun

menta f (plural mentas)
* (botany) mint, peppermint (specifically mentha × piperita)
    Synonym: hierba buena
* mint green (color/colour)
    menta:

#### Derived terms

* chocolate de menta
* menta coreana
* menta de caballo
* menta de gato
* salsa de menta

### See also

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text) :
| blanco | gris | negro |
| rojo; carmín, carmesí | naranja, anaranjado; marrón | amarillo; crema |
| lima | verde | menta |
| cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo | celeste, cerúleo | azul |
| violeta; añil, índigo | magenta; morado, púrpura | rosa, rosado |

### Further reading

* “menta”, 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