mont

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See also: Mont, Mont., Mǫnt, and mønt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mont.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont (plural monts)

  1. mount; mountain.

Derived terms

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French montre.

Noun

mont

  1. watch; clock

Breton

Alternative forms

Etymology

Suppletive verb; verbal noun from Proto-Brythonic *monetu (compare Welsh mynd, Cornish mones), verbal noun of Proto-Celtic *mon-ī- (compare Middle Irish muinithir (goes around)), from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (compare Umbrian menes (will come), Lithuanian mìnti (to trample, scutch)). Indicative forms from Proto-Celtic *ageti (to drive) (compare Old Irish aigid), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (compare Latin agō). The forms in el- are from Proto-Celtic *ɸel- (to approach, drive), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (compare Latin pellō (strike, drive), Epic Greek πίλναμαι (pílnamai, approach).

Pronunciation

Verb

mont

  1. (intransitive) to go

Inflection

Mutation of mont
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed
mont vont unchanged unchanged vont

Conjugation

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mont, from Latin montem.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. (archaic or toponyms) mount, mountain
    Synonyms: munt, muntanya

Derived terms

References

Franco-Provençal

Noun

mont (Old Beaujolais, Old Dauphinois)

  1. Alternative form of mondo (world)

References

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French mont, from Latin montem.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. mountain, mount, mont
  2. (in the plural) the Alps

Derived terms

(proper nouns):

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. mountain, mount

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

mont n (genitive singular monts, no plural)

  1. boasting, bragging
    Synonyms: gort, grobb, raup, sjálfshól
  2. conceit, arrogance
    Synonym: yfirlæti

Declension

Derived terms

  • monta (to boast, to brag)
  • montinn (boastful; conceited, arrogant)

References

  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2024), “mont”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Ingrian

Pronunciation

Determiner

mont (+ partitive)

  1. Alternative form of monta
    • 1937, N. S. Popova, translated by A. Kolesova, Arifmetikan oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (I. osa), Leningrad: Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:
      Mont sahhaaja? Mont tööläist?
      How many sawyers? How many workers?

Determiner

mont

  1. Alternative form of monta

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 314

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mont f (plural montes)

  1. mountain, mount, plateau

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin mons. Cognates include Italian monte and French mont.

Noun

mont m

  1. mountain

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch munt, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz.

Noun

mont m

  1. mouth (opening in the head)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: mond, mont (obsolete)
    • Afrikaans: mond
    • Javindo: mon
    • Negerhollands: mond, mon, mun, mont
      • Virgin Islands Creole: mon, mout (dated)
    • Petjo: mon
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: mont
  • Limburgish: móndj

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

mont

  1. Alternative form of mount

Norman

Etymology

From Old French mont, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. (Jersey, geography) hill

Derived terms

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mont m

  1. mount

Synonyms

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns. Doublet with montaigne.

Noun

mont oblique singularm (oblique plural monz or montz, nominative singular monz or montz, nominative plural mont)

  1. mountain
Descendants

Etymology 2

See monde

Noun

mont oblique singularm (oblique plural monz or montz, nominative singular monz or montz, nominative plural mont)

  1. Alternative form of monde

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m (plural montes)

  1. Apocopic form of monte; a mountain or hill.
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r:
      Fue el dia t̃cero al alba dela man. ⁊ vinẏerõ truenos ⁊ relãpagos ⁊ nuf grãt ſobrel mõt.
      It was the early morning of the third day, and there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin mons.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m

  1. mount, mountain

Romanian

Etymology

From bont.

Noun

mont n (plural monturi)

  1. bunion

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mont montul monturi monturile
genitive-dative mont montului monturi monturilor
vocative montule monturilor