mentum

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids
noun the protruding part of the lower jaw
noun a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin

Learned borrowing from Latin mentum (“the chin”). Doublet of menton.

Some help themselves with countenance and gesture, and are wise by signs; as Cicero saith of Piso, that when he answered him, he fetched one of his brows up to his forehead, and bent the other down to his chin: “Respondes, altero ad frontem sublato, altero ad mentum depresso supercilio; crudelitatem tibi non placere.”[298] Some think to bear it by speaking a great word, and being peremptory; and go on, and take by admittance that which they cannot make good. — Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients, Francis Bacon

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