mentir
Middle French
verb
Definitions
- to lie say something untrue
Etymology
Inherited from Old French mentir inherited from Latin *mentīre, mentīrī.
Origin
Latin
mentīrī
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *mentiō Latin
- *mentīre Latin
- mentīrī Latin
- mentire Italian
- démentir French
- menteur French
- mentir French
- mentir Spanish, Castilian
- *méntis Proto-Indo-European
- menteor Old French
- mentir Old French
- minți Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mentir Old Portuguese
- mentir Asturian
- mintî Friulian
- mentir Old Occitan
- mentir Old Spanish