mente
Spanish, noun
mente is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “mind, intellect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, menté is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of mentar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Entidad incorporea, inmaterial, supuesta sede de la imaginación, la conciencia, la reflexión, la intuición…”.
What does mente mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemind, intellect
suffix
- 1
Attaches to an adjective in the feminine singular to form the corresponding adverb; -ly.
verb
- 1
first-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
noun: 1. Entidad incorporea, inmaterial, supuesta sede de la imaginación, la conciencia, la reflexión, la intuición, la voluntad. 2. Habilidad para de tener pensamiento racional, de tener conciencia o de concentrarse en algo.
suffix: 1. Forma adverbios de modo a partir de adjetivos o participios.
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.
Forms of mente
- mentes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mente
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mente in Spanish?
mente appears 93 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).