Where does “-mento” come from?
-mento (Italian) comes from Latin -mentum, from Latin -menta, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.
-mento (Italian): Forms nouns that represent the action of a...
Definitions
- Forms nouns that represent the action of a...
Ancestry of “-mento”, step by step
Words derived from “-mento”
- basement
- compartment
- compartmentalization
- Risorgimento
- compartmentalize
- compartmental
- portamento
- compartmentation
- compartmentalisation
- compartmented
- aggiornamento
- subbasement
- unicompartmental
- compartmentalise
- multicompartment
- pentimento
- rifacimento
- subcompartment
- intercompartmental
- multicompartmental
- compartmentally
- noncompartmental
- decompartmentalization
- decompartmentalize