mento
Portuguese, noun/ˈmẽ.tu/
mento is spelled M-E-N-T-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,809th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “chin (bottom of a face)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “a porção da face correspondente à parte média da maxila inferior”.
What does mento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechin (bottom of a face)
suffix
- 1
masculine-ment
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. a porção da face correspondente à parte média da maxila inferior
suffix: 1. sufixo de origem latina usado na formação de substantivos derivados de verbos com o sentido de ação ou de seu resultado, que designa a ideia de um local ou área em que se realiza a ação (exemplo: estacionamento, onde se estaciona)
prefix: 1. queixo 2. mentol
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mento
- mentos plural
- men.to- canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mento?
- Brazil /ˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mento in Portuguese?
mento appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).