-miento

Spanish

suffix

Definitions

ment, forming nouns from verbs with the sense of the action or process.

Etymology

Inherited from Latin -mentum (denoting the instrument result of an action), -menta.

Origin

Latin

-menta

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

-menta Latin
-mentum Latin
annullare Latin
cognomentum Latin
mollīre, mollio Latin
pensō Latin
-mento Italian
*-mn̥teh₂ Proto-Indo-European
-ment Old French
macher Old French
parlement Old French
-mânt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
-ment Occitan
-mientu Asturian
-mentu Sardinian
-mentum LL