men
1 Americannoun
noun
Usage
What does men- mean? Men- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “month.” It is used in a few medical terms, specifically in references to menstruation.Men- comes from the Greek mḗn, meaning “month.” It's distantly related to the English word moon, itself related to the word month. Many calendars, both in the past and present, are based on the cycles of the moon.Menstruation is the periodic flow (known as menses) of blood and other substances from the uterus, which happens approximately every month in women of certain ages. Indeed, both menstruation and menses derive from the Latin mēnsis, meaning “month.”Men- is a variant of meno-, which loses its -o- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.Want to know more? Read our Words That Use meno- article.
Example Sentences
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Two British men, aged 20 and 19, and a dual British-Pakistani national, 17, remain in police custody.
From BBC
Derbyshire Police said four men and three women, aged between 36 and 52, suffered serious but non life-threatening injuries during the incident.
From BBC
But in the 41st minute, Alessandro Bastoni received a red card, and Italy had to defend its lead with 10 men.
The four men, all 37, went to college in New York around the same time, and some of them regularly got together to binge-watch the show.
The deployment of hundreds of thousands of young men to the battlefield in Ukraine over the last four years has only aggravated the problem.
From Barron's
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