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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mōns (“mountain”). Doublet of mount.
Pronunciation
Noun
mons (plural montes)
- (obsolete, palmistry) One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of mons pubis.
2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 316:Hesitantly, she used one finger to stroke the very top of the mons, surprised at its fatty, downy fullness — unfamiliar, despite a life of touching herself.
- (astronomy, geology) An extraterrestrial mountain or volcano.
Related terms
Translations
fleshy area at the base of fingers
astronomy: mountain on a planet or moon
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
mons
- plural of món (“world”)
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Determiner
mons
- (dialectal) masculine plural of mon
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Borrowed from French monstre (“monster”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mons
- (mythology) monster (a terrifying or dangerous mystical creature)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *monts, from Proto-Indo-European *món-tis, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”). Compare Old Breton monid, Breton menez, Cornish meneth, Welsh mynydd.
Pronunciation
Noun
mōns m (genitive montis); third declension
- mountain, mount
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:
- Aquītānia ā Garumnā flūmine ad Pȳrēnaeōs mōntēs et eam partem Ōceanī quae est ad Hispāniam pertinet...
- Aquitania extends from the Garonne river to the Pyrenaean mountains and that part of the ocean which reaches Iberia...
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.60–62:
- Sed pater omnipotēns spēluncīs abdidit ātrīs,
hoc metuēns, mōlemque et montīs īnsuper altōs
imposuit, .- But the all-powerful Father had hidden in dark caverns, fearing this , and above he placed massive high mountains, .
(The words “molemque et montis” exemplify alliteration and hendiadys.)
397 CE – 400 CE,
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis,
Cōnfessiōnēs 10.8:
- et eunt hominēs mīrārī alta montium et ingentēs flūctūs maris et lātissimōs lāpsūs flūminum et ōceanī ambitum et gȳrōs sīderum, et relinquunt sē ipsōs, …
- And men go to marvel at the heights of mountains and the huge waves of the sea and the widest courses of rivers and the flow of the ocean and the circuits of the stars, and they forsake themselves, .
- hill
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 1.517:
- montibus hīs ōlim tōtus prōmittitur orbis
- To these hills, one day, the whole world is promised.
- (metonymically) towering mass, heap, great quantity
- (metonymically) mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)
- (metonymically) mountain beasts, wild beasts (Late Latin, poetically)
- (metonymically) (of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Proverbs
Descendants
References
- “mons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- wooded hills: montes vestiti silvis
- the top of a mountain: summus mons
- at the foot of the mountain: sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte
- to be shut in on all sides by very high mountains: altissimis montibus undique contineri
- the town lies at the foot of a mountain: oppidum monti subiectum est
- to run obliquely down the hill: obliquo monte decurrere
- the Nile rushes down from very high mountains: Nilus praecipitat ex altissimis montibus
- to hold a mountain: tenere montem (B. G. 1. 22)
- to take up one's position on a mountain: consistere in monte
- to occupy the foot of a hill: considere sub monte (sub montis radicibus)
Swedish
Noun
mons
- definite genitive singular of mo