Etymology

mentes reae

Latin mentēs
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  1. Latin · derived frommentēs
  2. English todaymentes reae

First attested in 1932; from the Latin mentēs (“minds”, the nominative plural form of mēns, “mind”) + reae (the feminine nominative plural form of reus, “guilty”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.