-mento
See also: mento, mentó, and mentő
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese -mento, from Late Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta.
Suffix
-mento m
- -ment (forming nouns from verbs, with the sense of 'result, product (of process)')
Usage notes
In function of the thematic vowel of the verb, and since the early documentation of the language, this suffix takes one the following forms: -amento, -emento or -imento. Note that in Portuguese these forms are just -amento and -imento.
Derived terms
Galician terms suffixed with -mento
Interlingua
Alternative forms
- -amento, -imento
Etymology
From Late Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta.
Suffix
-mento
- forming concrete nouns from verbs, with the sense of 'result, product (of process)'
Derived terms
Interlingua terms suffixed with -mento
Italian
Alternative forms
- -imento
Etymology
From Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmen.to/
- Rhymes: -ento
- Hyphenation: -mén‧to
Suffix
-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -menti)
- forms nouns that represent the action of a related verb
- cambiare (“to change”) + -mento → cambiamento (“change (abstract)”)
- versare (“to pour”) + -mento → versamento (“pouring”)
Usage notes
- Terms formed with this suffix are invariably stressed on the penultimate syllable.
- Nouns formed from -ere verbs end in -imento.
Derived terms
Italian terms suffixed with -mento
Anagrams
- Monte, monte
Latin
Suffix
-mentō
- dative/ablative singular of -mentum
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- -amento, -imento
Etymology
From Old Portuguese -mento, from Late Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmẽ.tu/
- Rhymes: -ẽtu
Suffix
-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)
- -tion (process, action or result)
- Synonyms: -agem, -ção
Derived terms
Portuguese terms suffixed with -mento
Spanish
Alternative forms
- -amento, -imento
Etymology
From Late Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta. Doublet of -miento.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmento/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: -men‧to
Suffix
-mento m (plural -mentos)
- -ment (the action or result of what is denoted by the verb)
- jurar (“to swear”) + -mento → juramento (“oath”)
Derived terms
Spanish terms suffixed with -mento
See also
- -miento
Further reading
- “-mento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014