Words that come from Latin “menta”

141 words across 53 languages descend from Latin menta — including mint, peppermint, spearmint, minty, mintage, catmint, mintmark, horsemint.

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English (27)

Dutch (16)

German (11)

Polish (7)

Hungarian (7)

Old English (4)

Japanese (3)

Russian (3)

Czech (3)

Yiddish (3)

Norman (3)

Swedish (3)

French (2)

Indonesian (2)

Latin (2)

Old Danish (2)

Portuguese (2)

Middle English (2)

Plautdietsch (2)

Ukrainian (2)

Korean (2)

Catalan (2)

Middle Dutch (1)

Hausa (1)

Slovene (1)

Slovak (1)

Danish (1)

Italian (1)

Vilamovian (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Proto-Slavic (1)

Old Norse (1)

Spanish (1)

Old Church Slavonic (1)

Proto-Germanic (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Old High German (1)

Middle Low German (1)

Middle High German (1)

Old Swedish (1)

Estonian (1)

Romanian (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Franco-Provençal (1)

Hunsrik (1)

Welsh (1)

Walloon (1)

Swahili (1)

Greek (1)

Gujarati (1)

Thai (1)