Where does “mentio” come from?
mentio (Ido) comes from Ido mentiar, from Spanish mentir, from Old Spanish mentir, from Latin mentīrī, from Vulgar Latin mentionia, from Latin mentio, from Latin mentiri, from Latin mentior.
mentio (Ido): lie
Definitions
- lie
Ancestry of “mentio”, step by step
mentio traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Ido mentiar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ido | mentiar | to lie, to tell untruths deliberately |
| 2 | Spanish | mentir | to lie |
| 3 | Old Spanish | mentir | to lie |
| 4 | Latin | mentīrī | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | mentionia | — |
| 6 | Latin | mentio | mention, a calling to mind |
| 7 | Latin | mentiri | present active infinitive of mentior |
| 8 | Latin | mentior | I lie, deceive; I pretend, feign |
| 9 | Latin | mens | mind; intellect, reason; reasoning, judgement |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | mentis | mind, thought |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | méntis | thought |
| 12 | Indo-European | *men- | — |
via Ido o
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ido | o | Apocopic form of od |