-mento

• -amento, -emento, -imento

From Old Galician-Portuguese -mento, from Latin -mentum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmento/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ento
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnto/ [ˈmɛ̃n̪.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: -men‧to

-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)

1. -ment; forms nouns from verbs, with the sense of "result, product (of process)"

• In function of the thematic vowel of the verb, and since the early documentation of the language, this suffix takes one the following forms: -amento, -emento or -imento. Note that in Portuguese these forms are just -amento and -imento.

• -amento, -imento

From Latin -mentum.

-mento

1. forming concrete nouns from verbs, with the sense of 'result, product (of process)'

• -imento

From Latin -mentum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmen.to/
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: -mén‧to

-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -menti)

1. forms nouns that represent the action of a related verb

   ‎cambiare (“to change”) + ‎-mento → ‎cambiamento (“change (abstract)”)

   ‎versare (“to pour”) + ‎-mento → ‎versamento (“pouring”)

• Terms formed with this suffix are invariably stressed on the penultimate syllable.
• Nouns formed from -ere verbs end in -imento.

• Monte, monte

-mentō

1. dative/ablative singular of -mentum

• -amento, -emento

Inherited from Latin -mentum, from Proto-Italic *-məntom, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom, from *-mn̥.

-mento

1. -ment

   Synonyms: -age, -çon

• Fala: -mento
• Galician: -mento, -amento, -emento, -imento
• Portuguese: -mento, -amento, -imento

• Viñas, Xoán López (2015), “-mento”, in “Dicionario de afixos e voces afixadas do galego medieval [Dictionary of Medieval Galician's affixes and affixed terms]”, in Revista Galega de Filoloxía‎^[1] (in Galician), volume 8, A Coruña: UDC, →ISBN, page 193, line 2.1.25

• -amento, -imento

From Old Galician-Portuguese -mento, from Latin -mentum.

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: men‧to

-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)

1. -ment

   Synonyms: -agem, -ção

• “-mento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “-mento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “-mento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• -amento, -imento

From Latin -mentum. Doublet of -miento.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmento/ [ˈmẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: -men‧to

-mento m (noun-forming suffix, plural -mentos)

1. -ment (the action or result of what is denoted by the verb)

   ‎jurar (“to swear”) + ‎-mento → ‎juramento (“oath”)

• -miento

• “-mento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025