Where does “mentiar” come from?
mentiar (Ido) comes from Spanish mentir, from Old Spanish mentir, from Latin mentīrī, from Vulgar Latin mentionia, from Latin mentio, from Latin mentiri, from Latin mentior, from Latin mens.
mentiar (Ido): to lie, to tell untruths deliberately
Definitions
- to lie, to tell untruths deliberately
Ancestry of “mentiar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | mentir | to lie |
| 2 | Old Spanish | mentir | to lie |
| 3 | Latin | mentīrī | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | mentionia | — |
| 5 | Latin | mentio | mention, a calling to mind |
| 6 | Latin | mentiri | present active infinitive of mentior |
| 7 | Latin | mentior | I lie, deceive; I pretend, feign |
| 8 | Latin | mens | mind; intellect, reason; reasoning, judgement |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | mentis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | méntis | thought |
| 11 | Indo-European | *men- | — |
Words derived from “mentiar”