🔹 Denominal Nouns Ending in -menta

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The suffix -menta forms a small group of feminine collective nouns, generally meaning 'a set, mass, or collection of N'. The RAE notes that most traditional formations are cultisms, although -menta has acquired some regional productivity in Central American and Caribbean Spanish.

Ordered approximately by frequency:

#	Spanish Noun	Noun in English	Base Noun	Base Noun in English
1	cornamenta	set of horns; antlers	cuerno	horn
2	osamenta	skeleton; collection of bones	hueso / Lat. ossa	bone / bones
3	palamenta	set of oars	pala	paddle; blade
4	astamenta	set of horns; antlers	asta	horn; antler
5	perramenta	large group of dogs	perro	dog
6	cachamenta	set of horns	cacho	horn
7	jachamenta	set of teeth; dentition	jacha	tooth (regional)
8	trastamenta	collection of kitchen utensils	trasto	utensil; implement
9	tetamenta	bust; collective reference to breasts (regional)	teta	breast

A few important details:

cuerno → cornamenta shows the stem alternation cuern- → corn-.
osamenta is historically from medieval Latin ossamenta, based on ossa 'bones', so hueso → osamenta is a semantic relationship rather than a regular modern Spanish derivation.
pala → palamenta is explicitly analyzed by the DLE as pala + -menta.
asta → astamenta is likewise explicitly asta + -menta.

For the strict N-menta category, do not include vestimenta. Although the RAE discusses it alongside these words, it explicitly identifies it as having a verbal base (vestir), so it is not N-menta.

This is therefore a genuinely small class; cornamenta and osamenta are by far the most generally useful members.

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