different between menta vs yenta

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

Alternative forms

• yente

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????? (yente).

Noun

yenta (plural yentas)

1. A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.

   Please don't tell your girlfriend what I said; she's a yenta!

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 201]:

     And you had to marry that yenta West Side broad from a family of ward politicians and punchboard gamblers of candy-store kikes and sewer inspectors.

2. (Jewish) A matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses.

Anagrams

• Taney