menton
Old French
/menˈton/
noun
Definitions
- chin
- (by extension) chinguard of a helmet
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *mentō, mentum (chin, medium, instrument, -ment, result of, beard).
Origin
Latin
mentum
Gloss
chin, medium, instrument, -ment, result of, beard
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
髭
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mentum English
- *mento, mentonem Latin
- *mentō Latin
- mentigo Latin
- mentum Latin
- mento Italian
- menton French
- mentonnière French
- mentón Spanish, Castilian
- *men- Proto-Indo-European
- mento Portuguese
- mentono Esperanto
- mentó Catalan, Valencian
- menton Occitan
- *mentom Proto-Italic
- mintun Romansh
- manton Haitian, Haitian Creole
- minton Picard
- maton Antillean Creole