different between mento vs cento

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt??

Noun

mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)

1. a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices
2. an individual mento song

Anagrams

• Monet, Monte, Moten, meton., monte

Asturian

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

Catalan

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative form of mentir

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mento/
• Hyphenation: men?to
• Rhymes: -ento

Noun

mento (accusative singular menton, plural mentoj, accusative plural mentojn)

1. mint (plant)

Derived terms

• pipromento

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from Esperanto menso, Italian mente and Spanish mente, ultimately from Latin m?ns. The Esperanto word was modified to reflect forms in natural languages and international derived terms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?men.to/

Noun

mento (plural menti)

1. mind, mentality

Derived terms

• mentala

Interlingua

Noun

mento (plural mentos)

1. chin

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mentum, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?men.to/

Noun

mento m (plural menti)

1. (anatomy) chin, mentum

Related terms

Etymology 2

See mentire.

Alternative forms

• mentisco

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?n.to/

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentire

Anagrams

• monte

Latin

Noun

ment?

1. dative singular of mentum
2. ablative singular of mentum

References

• mento in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mentum.

Noun

mento m (plural mentos)

1. chin (bottom of a face)

   Synonym: queixo

English

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

Noun

cento (plural centos or centones)

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

   • Now look out in the GRADUS for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus, for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these Centos.

Derived terms

• centoism
• centoist
• centonical
• centonism

Anagrams

• Conte, Conté, Note?, c note, c-note, conté, cteno-, oncet, tecno-

Esperanto

Etymology

cent +? -o

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tsento/
• Hyphenation: cen?to
• Rhymes: -ento

Noun

cento (accusative singular centon, plural centoj, accusative plural centojn)

1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Numeral

cento

1. combining form of cen (100).

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cento is used, as cento un or cento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cento cincuenta e catro.

Interlingua

Noun

cento (plural centos)

1. hundred

Numeral

cento

1. a hundred

Derived terms

• duo centos (“two hundred”)
• quatro centos (“four hundred”)
• cinque centos (“five hundred”)
• novem centos (“nine hundred”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???n.to/
• Rhymes: -?nto

Numeral

cento

1. hundred

Derived terms

• duecento (“two hundred”)
• trecento (“three hundred”)
• quattrocento (“four hundred”)
• cinquecento (“five hundred”)
• seicento (“six hundred”)
• settecento (“seven hundred”)
• ottocento (“eight hundred”)
• novecento (“nine hundred”)

Related terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams

• conte

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ken.to?/, [?k?n?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??en.to/, [?t???n?t??]

Noun

cent? m (genitive cent?nis); third declension

1. A garment of several pieces sewed together; a patchwork
2. A cap worn under the helmet

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: cencio

References

• cento in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cento in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cento in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s?.tu/
• Homophone: sento
• Hyphenation: cen?to

Adjective

cento m or f

1. (only in compounds) one hundred

Usage notes

For 100 itself, cem is used.

Noun

cento m (plural centos)

1. hundred (100 units of something)