Noun: mentira
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | mentira |
| Plural f | mentiras |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like mentira
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mentira, probably from mentir (“to lie”), from Latin mentiri, denominal verb from mēns, mentis (“mind”) in which the meaning "to lie" stems from a semantic shift "to be inventive, have second thoughts" > "to lie, conjure up", from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from *men- (“to think”) + *-tis. See: Latin Nouns '
mentior'.
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