different between menta vs mentha

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?nt?/

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

From Latin menta.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?men.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?men.ta/

Noun

menta f (plural mentes)

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

Hyponyms

• menta bergamota (“orange mint”)
• menta borda (“applemint”)
• menta boscana (“horsemint”)
• menta de gat (“catnip”)
• menta pebrera (“peppermint”)
• menta verda (“spearmint”)
• poliol

Related terms

• mendastre

Further reading

• “menta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• matak, méentag

Etymology

From Old High German m?nitag, from Proto-West Germanic *m?nini dag (literally “day of the moon”), a calque of Latin di?s L?nae. Cognate with Dutch maandag, English Monday, German Montag, Icelandic mánudagur, Swedish måndag.

Noun

menta ?

1. (Luserna) Monday

References

• “menta” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [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 ????? (mínt?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?nta?/, /?menta?/

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): /?m?nta?/, /?menta?/

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

• “amenta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “amenta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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 ????? (mínth?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?nt?]
• Hyphenation: men?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

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 értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mentha, from Ancient Greek ????? (mínth?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?men.ta/

Noun

menta f (plural mente)

1. mint (plant and herb)
2. peppermint (confection)

Derived terms

• menta piperita
• verde menta

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?n.ta/

Verb

menta

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• mentha

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?men.ta/, [?m?n?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?men.ta/, [?m?n?t??]

Noun

menta f (genitive mentae); first declension

1. mint (plant)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• mentastrum

Noun

menta

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mentum

Descendants

• Catalan: menta
• Cimbrian: menta
• Old French: [Term?]
  • French: menthe
    • Haitian Creole: mant
    • ? Romanian: ment?
  • Norman: menthe
• Galician: menta
• ? Greek: ????? (ménta)
• ? Hungarian: menta
• ?? Old Irish: minntus
  • Irish: miontas
• Italian: menta
• Portuguese: menta
• ? Slavic: *m?ta (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Romanian: mint?
• Spanish: menta
• ? West Germanic: *mint? (see there for further descendants)
  • Old English: minte
    • Middle English: mynte, mente, minte, mynt, mint
      • English: mint
      • Scots: mint
      • ? Welsh: mint

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 ????? (mínt?).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.t?/
• 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 ????? (mínt?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?menta/, [?m?n?.t?a]
• Hyphenation: men?ta

Noun

menta f (plural mentas)

1. (botany) mint, peppermint (specifically mentha × piperita)

   Synonym: hierba buena

2. (color) the color, menta verde

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

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

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

mentha (plural menthas)

1. (botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
   • 1974, Daniel J. Foley, Herbs for Use and for Delight: An Anthology from The Herbarist (page 89)

     Very aromatic; all culinary menthas can be used for sauces, jellies, and candied leaves.

   • 1976, Agriculture and Agro-industries Journal (volume 9, page 19)

     In the plots where black peppermint were planted as inter-row crop, there were 4 rows of Citronella or other menthas with alternate rows of black peppermint.

Anagrams

• Hemant, Manthe, anthem, hetman, nameth, the man