different between mentalis vs mentalist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin ment?lis, clipping of musculus ment?lis (“chin muscle”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?n?te?.l?s/
• Rhymes: -e?l?s

Noun

mentalis (plural mentales)

1. (anatomy) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin; it originates in the incisive fossa of the mandible, inserts in the skin of the chin, and raises the chin and pushes up the lower lip.

Translations

References

• “mentalis”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Simental, ailments, aliments, manliest, melanist, melastin, salt mine, saltmine, smaltine, talismen

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From m?ns (“the mind, the heart”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ment?lis (neuter ment?le); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) mental

Inflection

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From mentum (“the chin”) +? -?lis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ment?lis (neuter ment?le); third-declension two-termination adjective (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) mental

Inflection

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Descendants

• ? English: mental, mentalis

References

• mentalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mentalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Etymology

mental +? -ist

Pronunciation

Adjective

mentalist (comparative more mentalist, superlative most mentalist)

1. Of or relating to mentalism

Noun

mentalist (plural mentalists)

1. A practitioner of mentalism.
2. (slang) An insane person.
   • 1997, I'm Alan Partridge (TV series), To Kill a Mocking Alan

     Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.

     Alan Partridge: Yep.

     Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.

     Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!

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