mentigo

Latin

Etymology

mentum (“the chin”) +‎ -īgō (“diseased condition”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /menˈtiː.ɡoː/, [mɛn̪ˈt̪iːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈti.ɡo/, [men̪ˈt̪iːɡo]

Noun

mentīgō f (genitive mentīginis); third declension

1. a kind of eruption or scab on lambs
   • ante AD 70, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (author), E.S. Forster and Edward H. Heffner (editors), Res Rustica in On Agriculture, volume II: Books V–IX (1954), book vii, chapter v, § 21, page 275:

     Est etiam mentigo, quam pastores ostiginem vocant, mortifera lactentibus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mentīgō	mentīginēs
Genitive	mentīginis	mentīginum
Dative	mentīginī	mentīginibus
Accusative	mentīginem	mentīginēs
Ablative	mentīgine	mentīginibus
Vocative	mentīgō	mentīginēs

Synonyms

• (eruption or scab on lambs): ostīgō

References

• “mentīgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mentīgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 967/3.
• “mentīgō” on page 1,100/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)