MENTITI, mentiti
Sounds Like: men-TEE-tee
Translations: lied, having lied, they lied
From the root: MENTIOR
Part of Speech: Participle, Verb
Explanation: This word is the perfect active participle of the deponent verb 'mentior', meaning 'to lie' or 'to deceive'. As a participle, it describes someone who has performed the action of lying. It can also function as a verb form in the perfect tense, often translated as 'they lied' or 'they have lied'.
Inflection: Perfect Active Participle, Masculine, Plural, Nominative
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, MENTIOR.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- MENTIENTES — lying, deceiving, false, liars, those who lie
- MENTIOR — lie, tell a lie, deceive, invent, feign, pretend
- MENTITUS — having lied, having deceived, false, feigned
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