different between ment vs gent

English

Verb

ment

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of meng
2. Obsolete spelling of meant

Anagrams

• T-men

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin mentem, accusative singular of m?ns (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?men/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

ment f (plural ments)

1. the mind
2. the spirit

Related terms

• -ment
• dement
• mental

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular present indicative form of mentir
2. second-person singular imperative form of mentir

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

ment

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of mennen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of mennen

Estonian

Etymology

From Russian ???? (ment).

Noun

ment (genitive mendi, partitive menti)

1. (slang) cop (police officer)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• politseinik
• võmm

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular present indicative of mentir

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mentem, accusative singular of m?ns (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Noun

ment f (plural ments)

1. mind
2. intelligence

Related terms

• mentâl

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?nt]
• Hyphenation: ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From the obsolete verb menik (“to flee”) + -t (causative suffix).

Verb

ment

2. (transitive) to rescue, to save

Conjugation

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the men- stem of the verb megy +? -t.

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular past of megy

Participle

ment

1. past participle of megy
   • 1926, Gyula Juhász, Esti dal^[1] [’Evening Song’]

     De ha az alkonyat leszállott, / Olyan kedves, kámzsás barátok / A barna árnyékok nekem, / A messze menteket idézik

     But when the dusk has set in / The brown shadows are / Such nice, hooded monks for me, / Recalling those who went afar

Declension

Etymology 3

Adjective

ment (comparative mentebb, superlative legmentebb)

1. (archaic, literary) exempt

   Synonym: mentes

Declension

References

Further reading

• (to save): ment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (exempt): ment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ment

1. past participle of mene

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Short for gentleman.

Noun

gent (plural gents)

1. (colloquial) A gentleman.

Related terms

• genteel
• gentile
• gentle

Etymology 2

From Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).

Adjective

gent (comparative more gent, superlative most gent)

1. (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.

   • A knyght [who] was fair and gent.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent, / That him againe lou'd in the least degree [...].

2. (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant

   • Her body gent and small.

Etymology 3

Noun

gent (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for gentamicin.

Anagrams

• Teng

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gentem, accusative of g?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?tis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /??ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /??en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d??ent/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

gent f (uncountable)

1. people, folk

Derived terms

• gentada
• gentalla
• genteta

Further reading

• “gent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “gent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Old French gent, from Latin gens, gentem. Cf. gens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

gent f (plural gents or gens)

1. (obsolete) people, nation
2. (obsolete) tribe
3. company, those who are in accompaniment

Adjective

gent (feminine singular gente, masculine plural gents, feminine plural gentes)

1. (obsolete or humorous) nice, pleasant, or noble, speaking of a person or thing

Further reading

• “gent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From earlier Ganda; if from Celtic, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kom-dati (“confluence”), from Proto-Indo-European *kom-d?h?-ti- (“confluence”), equivalent to *?óm + *d?eh?- (similar to the town Condivincum); or related to the Celtic goddess Gontia. The name could otherwise be of non-Indo-European origin.

Noun

gent ?

1. Ghent (a city in modern Belgium)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Gent

References

Further reading

• “ghent”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Old French

Pronunciation

• (early) IPA^(key): /?d?ent/
• (by 13th century) IPA^(key): /?d?ant/
• (Late Old French) IPA^(key): /??ant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Etymology 1

From Latin gentem, accusative singular of g?ns. The nominative singular descends from a regularized form: oblique stem gent- and 3rd declension nominative -is.

Noun

gent f (oblique plural genz or gentz, nominative singular gent, nominative plural genz or gentz)

1. people, population

   la Franceise gent - the French people

Descendants

• French: gens
• Norman: gens
• Walloon: djin

Etymology 2

From Latin genitus (“begotten”), perfect passive participle of gign?.

Adjective

gent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gente)

1. fair, beautiful, handsome
2. brave and beautiful
3. polite

   Synonym: gentil

Usage notes

The Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français points out the difficulty of translating this word into modern languages. The adjective describes an ideal person in a given context: brave warriors in chansons de geste, loyal good men in tales of courtly love, polite people in all occasions, who are always handsome or beautiful. It also notes the meaning 'well-born, aristocratic', mentioned in some dictionaries of Old French, is extremely rarely attested.

Declension

Related terms

• gençor (comparative), also spelled gensor

Swedish

Adjective

gent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of gen.

Yola

Noun

gent

1. Alternative form of geint