mentira

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mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “mentira”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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mentira f (plural mentires)

1. lie (intentionally false statement)

• mentir

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.ti.ʁa/

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mentira

1. third-person singular simple future of mentir

• marient, martien, Martien, Martine, minaret, termina

• mintir

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mentira, probably from mentir (“to lie”), from Latin mentiri, present active infinitive of mentior, denominal verb from mēns, mentis (“mind”) in which the meaning "to lie" stems from a semantic shift "to be inventive, have second thoughts" > "to lie, conjure up", from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from *men- (“to think”) +‎ *-tis.

• IPA^(key): [menˈtiɾɐ]

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie, falsehood

• mentir
• mentireiro

• “mentira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mentira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mentira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mentira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “mentira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “mentira” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From Portuguese mentira and Spanish mentira and Kabuverdianu mintira.

mentira

1. lie (intentionally untrue statement)

• • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /mĩ.ˈti.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: men‧ti‧ra

Inherited from Old Portuguese mentira, from mentir (“to lie”), from Latin mentīrī, denominal verb from mēns (“mind”), in which the meaning "to lie" stems from a semantic shift "to be inventive, have second thoughts" > "to lie, conjure up", from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”), from *men- (“to think”) +‎ *-tis.

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie (intentionally untrue statement)

   Synonyms: (more formal) falsidade, (slang) balela, (slang) lorota, (usually euphemistic) inverdade, (euphemistic) fábula, patranha, (obsolete, rare) desverdade

   Antonym: verdade

• mentirinha (diminutive), mentirazinha (diminutive)
• mentirona (augmentative)
• de mentira
• mentira branca
• mentira tem perna curta
• mentiroso

• mentir

mentira

1. (informal) I mean (used to correct a piece of information)

   Eu comprei trinta... mentira, vinte, tomates.

   I bought thirty... I mean, twenty, tomatoes.

   Synonyms: quer dizer, digo, quero dizer

mentira

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mentir

From mentir (“to lie”).

• IPA^(key): /menˈtiɾa/ [mẽn̪ˈt̪i.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: men‧ti‧ra

mentira f (plural mentiras)

1. lie, trick, falsity

   Parecía mentira que su cuerpo fuera tan hermoso.

   It was unbelievable how beautiful her body was.

• mentir (verb)
• mentiroso

• embuste m
• patraña f
• trufa f

• “mentira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014