mentir

From Vulgar Latin *mentīre, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior.

mentir (first-person singular indicative present mento, past participle mentíu)

1. to lie (tell an intentional untruth)

• mentira
• mente

From Old Occitan mentir, from Vulgar Latin *mentīre, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior.

mentir (first-person singular present menteixo, past participle mentit)

1. to lie (say something untrue)

• desmentir

• mentida
• mentider
• mentidor
• ment

• “mentir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mentir” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mentir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mentir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Plural form of Old Norse ment (education, art).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn̥tɪɹ]

mentir f pl (plurale tantum, genitive plural menta)

1. art, capability, skill
2. (spiritual) culture
3. (archaic) wizardry, witchcraft
4. (archaic) power

From Middle French mentir, from Old French mentir, from Vulgar Latin *mentiō, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.tiʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

mentir

1. to lie (say something untrue)

   Il ne faut pas se mentir : l'entreprise s'annonce difficile. – Let's not kid ourselves: ...

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) mens and (il) ment in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *mentis and *mentit (as in the past historic).

• mensonge
• menteur

• “mentir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• mirent
• riment

From Old Portuguese mentir, from Vulgar Latin *mentīre, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior.

• IPA^(key): /menˈtiɾ/, (popular) /minˈtiɾ/

mentir (first-person singular present minto, first-person singular preterite mentín, past participle mentido)

1. to lie (say something untrue)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 672:

     Et se uós, dom Ulixas, dizedes que auedes y mayor dereyto ca eu, dígouos que me mentides

     And in case that you, lord Ulysses, would say that you have more rights than me in this, then I'll tell you that you lie to me

2. (cattle) to exceed the expected calving time

• mentira (“lie”)
• mentirán (“liar”)
• mentireiro (“liar”)
• mentiroso (“liar”)
• mente (“mind”)

• “mentir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mentir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mentir” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mentir” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

mentir

1. to lie

From Old French mentir, from Vulgar Latin *mentīre, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior.

mentir

1. to lie (say something untrue)

• French: mentir

From Vulgar Latin *mentīre, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior.

mentir

1. to lie (say something untrue)

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• mensoigne
• menteor

• Middle French: mentir
  • French: mentir

From Vulgar Latin *mentīre, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior.

mentir

1. to lie (say something untrue)

• menzonga

• Catalan: mentir
• Occitan: mentir

From Old Portuguese mentir (“to lie”), from Vulgar Latin *mentīre, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior, denominal verb from mēns, mentis (“mind”) in which the meaning "to lie" stems from a semantic shift "to be inventive, have second thoughts" > "to lie, conjure up", from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from *men- (“to think”) +‎ *-tis.

mentir (first-person singular present indicative minto, past participle mentido)

1. to lie (say something untrue)

• mentira
• mentiroso
• mente

From *mentīre, from Latin mentīrī, present active infinitive of mentior.

• IPA^(key): /menˈtiɾ/, [mẽn̪ˈt̪iɾ]

mentir (first-person singular present miento, first-person singular preterite mentí, past participle mentido)

1. to lie (say something untrue)

   Me mientes.

   You're lying to me.

• Rule: e becomes a ie in stressed syllables and i in certain conjugations.

• desmentir

• mentira
• mentiroso
• mente

• “mentir” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.