The corpus record — Latin

menta

menta · f

mint

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 71 · 45.27/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

menta — Lewis & Short

menta (mentha), ae, f., = mi/nth,

I mint, acc. to the myth, so called from Menthe or Minthe, a nymph who was changed by Proserpine into this plant, Ov. M. 10, 729; 8, 663; Plin. 19, 8, 47, § 159: ructatrix, Mart. 10, 48, 10: serpens, Col. poët. 10, 119. —Prov.: decimatis mentham et rutam et omne olus, et praeteritis judicium, i. e. carefully attend to trifles and neglect weighty matters, Vulg. Luc. 11, 42; id. Matt. 23, 23.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. menta (scan p. 422; entry #6774).

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