-mento

From Old Galician-Portuguese -mento, from Late Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmento/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ento
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnto/ [ˈmɛ̃n̪.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: -men‧to

-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)

1. -ment; forms nouns from verbs, with the sense of "result, product (of process)"

• In function of the thematic vowel of the verb, and since the early documentation of the language, this suffix takes one the following forms: -amento, -emento or -imento. Note that in Portuguese these forms are just -amento and -imento.

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• -amento, -imento

From Late Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta.

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-mento

1. forming concrete nouns from verbs, with the sense of 'result, product (of process)'

• -imento

From Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: -mén‧to

-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -menti)

1. forms nouns that represent the action of a related verb

   ‎cambiare (“to change”) + ‎-mento → ‎cambiamento (“change (abstract)”)

   ‎versare (“to pour”) + ‎-mento → ‎versamento (“pouring”)

• Terms formed with this suffix are invariably stressed on the penultimate syllable.
• Nouns formed from -ere verbs end in -imento.

• Monte, monte

-mentō

1. dative/ablative singular of -mentum

• -amento, -imento

From Old Galician-Portuguese -mento, from Late Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta.

• Rhymes: -ẽtu

-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)

1. -tion (process, action or result)

   Synonyms: -agem, -ção

• -amento, -imento

From Late Latin -mentum, -amentum, from Latin -menta. Doublet of -miento.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmento/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: -men‧to

-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)

1. -ment (the action or result of what is denoted by the verb)

   ‎jurar (“to swear”) + ‎-mento → ‎juramento (“oath”)

• -miento

• “-mento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28