From the word’s history

From Middle English mencioun, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiō 'a mention, calling to mind'.

經古法文來自拉丁文 mentiō「提起、想起」。

Wiktionary

You can picture mention as touching on something just in passing: you say its name or bring it up for a moment, lightly, without stopping to explain. A quick brush against a topic — enough that it's been said, not enough to be a full account. The noun is simply that brush turned into a thing; the are all small twists on 'I only touched on it.'

可以把 mention 想成順口碰一下某件事:把它的名字說出來、或提它一下,輕輕的,不停下來細講。核心畫面比較像『擦過一個話題』——說到了就算數,但不到把它講清楚的程度。名詞就是把這個『擦一下』變成一樣東西;那些慣用語則都是在『我只是稍微提了一下』上面打的小轉折。

Two branches

順口提一下

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mention (talk briefly about) · verb

To talk or write about something quickly, without giving many details.

提到

由「提一下」長出的慣用語

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not to mention · verb

Used in 'not to mention' to add another thing that makes a point even stronger.

更別說

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

mentionnoun/ˈmɛnʃən/

  • 1

    A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.

    • I will make mention of thy righteousness.
    • And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
  • 2

    A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.

    • "I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."
    • In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […].

mentionverb/ˈmɛnʃən/

  • 1

    To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify

    • He happened to mention your name to me.
    • fine mantles of Irish frieze are mentioned in a list of goods exported from England to Pope Urban VI
  • 2

    human-scienceslinguisticsphilosophyTo utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.

    • I can illustrate this by mentioning the word lead. Now you have no way of knowing for sure which meaning I have in mind until I give it some context by using it in a sentence.
    • If the verbatimness view derives from the popular notion that DST repeats 'the actual words spoken', a second line of thought takes its cue from Quine's (1940: 23–26, 1960: 146–156) philosophical distinction between words which are “used” vs. words which are merely “mentioned”.

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