The corpus record — Latin

mentum

chin

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Where it lives

Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mentum — de Vaan

mentum 'chin' [n. ο] (Ρ1.+) Pit. *mnto-. PIE *mn-to- >'chin, mouth'. IE cognates: W. mani 'mouth, jaw, beak', Hit. meni[n.], mena- 'face, cheek' < *men-ihi, *men-eh2, Go, munps [m.], OIc. munnr, OE mud, OHG muM 'mouth'; OHG mindel, OIc. mel [n.] 'mouth-bit of a bridle'. Possibly cognate with the verbs e-, promineo, which points to a verbal root *men- 'to rise up, protrude'. An original verbal adj. *mw-to-, used with … — [de Vaan, s.v. mentum, p. 387]

2. mentum — Lewis & Short

mentum, i, n.root men-, min-, to project; cf.: minae, minari, etc.,

I the chin of persons and animals; also, the chin with the hair that grows on it, the beard.

I Lit.: Herculis mentum paulo attritius, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94: attingere, Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 251: incana, Verg. A. 6, 809: caprarum, Plin. 8, 50, 76, § 204.—

II Transf., in archit., the projecting part of a cornice, which casts off the rain, the coping, Vitr. 4, 3, 6.

3. mentum — Lewis & Short

mentumdicebant, quod nos commentum, Paul. ex

Fest. p. 124 Müll.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. mentum (scan pp. 387-388; entry #1031). Root candidates: *mnto-, *men-, *genu-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. mentum (scan p. 657; entry #10887).

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