mentalis
See also: mentális
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin mentālis, ellipsis of musculus mentālis (“the chin muscle”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /mɛnˈteɪ.lɪs/
- Rhymes: -eɪlɪs
Noun
mentalis (plural mentales)
- (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.
Related terms
- mental
Translations
muscle
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References
- “mentalis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Anagrams
- Simental, ailments, aliments, manliest, melanist, melastin, salt mine, saltmine, smaltine, talismen
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /menˈtaː.lis/, [mɛn̪ˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /menˈta.lis/, [men̪ˈt̪äːlis]
Etymology 1
From mēns (“the mind, heart”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Adjective
mentālis (neuter mentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) mental (of the mind)
Inflection
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mentālis | mentāle | mentālēs | mentālia | |
| Genitive | mentālis | mentālium | |||
| Dative | mentālī | mentālibus | |||
| Accusative | mentālem | mentāle | mentālēs mentālīs | mentālia | |
| Ablative | mentālī | mentālibus | |||
| Vocative | mentālis | mentāle | mentālēs | mentālia | |
Descendants
Descendants of mentalis in other languages
- → Asturian: mental
- → Catalan: mental
- → Galician: mental
- → German: mental
- → Italian: mentale
- → Middle French: mental
- → English: mental
- French: mental
- → Portuguese: mental
- → Romanian: mintal, mental
- Sicilian: mintali
- → Spanish: mental
- → Swedish: mental
Etymology 2
From mentum (“the chin”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Adjective
mentālis (neuter mentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective (New Latin)
- (anatomy) mental (of the chin)
Inflection
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mentālis | mentāle | mentālēs | mentālia | |
| Genitive | mentālis | mentālium | |||
| Dative | mentālī | mentālibus | |||
| Accusative | mentālem | mentāle | mentālēs mentālīs | mentālia | |
| Ablative | mentālī | mentālibus | |||
| Vocative | mentālis | mentāle | mentālēs | mentālia | |
Descendants
- → English: 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)