mentecato
Portuguese
Adjective
mentecato (feminine mentecata, masculine plural mentecatos, feminine plural mentecatas)
- Dated form of mentecapto.
Noun
mentecato m (plural mentecatos, feminine mentecata, feminine plural mentecatas)
- Dated form of mentecapto.
Spanish
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mente captus (literally “taken in the mind”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /menteˈkato/ [mẽn̪.t̪eˈka.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ato
- Syllabification: men‧te‧ca‧to
Adjective
mentecato (feminine mentecata, masculine plural mentecatos, feminine plural mentecatas)
Further reading
- “mentecato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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