Noun: menton
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | menton |
| Plural m | mentons |
Sample Sentences
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On put remarquer qu’il avait des petits yeux en amande, et qu’un pli vertical faisait de son menton un derrière de bébé. (One could note that he had little almond eyes, and that a vertical line made his chin the bottom of a baby.) [1922, Jules Romains, Les Copains:]
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Il avait des yeux noirs perçants qui souriaient volontiers, l’air droit et intelligent, un grand front, des pommettes saillantes – mais pas de menton, ce qui eût dû rassurer les puissants, s’il est vrai que le menton proéminent est le signe des fermes volontés. (He had piercing black eyes that smiled easily, a proper and intelligent look, a large forehead, prominent cheekbones—but no chin, which must have reassured the powerful men, if it is true that a prominent chin is a sign of a firm will.) [1934, Jean Guéhenno, Journal d’un homme de 40 ans, Grasset:]
Nouns inflected like menton
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French menton, mentun, from Vulgar Latin *mentō (accusative *mentōnem), from Classical Latin mentum. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project”). Compare Occitan menton, Catalan mentó, Romansh mintun. See: Latin Nouns '
mentum', Catalan Nouns '
mentó'.
Verbs referencing "menton"
English Nouns
menton, Spanish Nouns
mentón, Catalan Nouns
mentó.
Translations