mentagra

English

Etymology

From Latin mentum (chin) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, a catching).

Noun

mentagra (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) sycosis

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mentagra in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams


Latin

Noun

mentāgra f (genitive mentāgrae); first declension

  1. An eruption on the chin

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mentāgra mentāgrae
Genitive mentāgrae mentāgrārum
Dative mentāgrae mentāgrīs
Accusative mentāgram mentāgrās
Ablative mentāgrā mentāgrīs
Vocative mentāgra mentāgrae

References

  • mentagra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mentagra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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