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
Ancestry of “mentio”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | méntis | thought |
| 12 | Indo-European | *men- | — |
Words derived from “mentio”