Translation
to mention
Word origin
From Latin mentio ('a calling to mind'), which reached Esperanto through French mentionner and English mention. The Latin noun belongs to the same family as mens ('mind'), so a mention is literally a bringing to mind.
- Origin
- Latin, via French and English mention
- Root
- mentio
- English cognates
- mention, mental
Examples
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He mentioned your name yesterday.
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The book does not even mention that war.
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She forgot to mention the most important thing.
is transitive and takes a plain object: , no preposition needed. Like , the root ends in i, so the infinitive has a double i: men-CI-i.
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