-mento
Spanish, suffix
-mento is spelled M-E-N-T-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 67,533rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -mento is a Spanish masculine suffix meaning “-ment (the action or result of what is denoted by the verb)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, mentó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of mentar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante anticuada de -miento”.
What does -mento mean in English?
suffix
- 1
masculine-ment (the action or result of what is denoted by the verb)
jurar (“to swear”) + -mento → juramento (“oath”)
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of mentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Variante anticuada de -miento.
noun: 1. Género tradicional de música de Jamaica precursora de la música ska y de reggae. Generalmente se sirve de instrumentos acústicos, como la guitarra, el banyo, diferentes tipos de tambores y la marímbula.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to -mento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -mento in Spanish?
-mento appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).