Etymology

mentum

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Today it means: The chin. Full definition →

Latin mentum
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing frommentum“the chin”
  2. English todaymentum

Learned borrowing from Latin mentum (“the chin”). Doublet of menton.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.