Mental Definition

mĕntl
adjective
Of or for the mind or intellect.
Mental powers, mental aids.
Webster's New World
Executed or performed by the mind; existing in the mind.
Mental calculation; a mental image.
American Heritage Medicine
Done by, or carried on in, the mind (i.e., without using written symbols)
Mental arithmetic.
Webster's New World
Mentally deranged; insane.
Webster's New World
Of, having, or related to mental illness or any psychiatric disorder.
A mental patient, mental health.
Webster's New World
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noun

(zoology) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

Wiktionary

Origin of Mental

  • From Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis (“of the mind, mental"), from Latin mÄ“ns (“the mind"). Also from Latin mentum (“the chin"), depending on usage.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Late Latin mentālis from Latin mēns ment- mind men-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin mentum chin men-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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