mentagra

English

Etymology

From Latin mentum (“chin”) + Ancient Greek ἄγρα (ágra, “a catching”).

Noun

mentagra (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) sycosis

References

• “mentagra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• magnetar, mantegar

Latin

Noun

mentāgra f (genitive mentāgrae); first declension

1. An eruption on the chin

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mentāgra	mentāgrae
genitive	mentāgrae	mentāgrārum
dative	mentāgrae	mentāgrīs
accusative	mentāgram	mentāgrās
ablative	mentāgrā	mentāgrīs
vocative	mentāgra	mentāgrae

References

• “mentagra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mentagra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.