montania

montania (plural montanias)

1. mountain

• montāna, montānea

From mont- (“mountain”) +‎ -ānia (collective noun-forming suffix), the latter from the neuter plural of Latin -āneus (adjective-forming suffix). Cf. the development of campānia (“countryside”) < campus (“field”). Sense 1 appears to be the original one, judging by the word's construction.

Attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /monˈtaː.ni.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /monˈta.ni.a/,

montānia f (genitive montāniae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. mountainous area
2. mountain
   • 1035, Testamentum Guifredi Comitis Cerritanensis:

     Et ipsa montania relinquo filio meo Berengario...

     And I leave the mountain to my son Berengar...

First-declension noun.

• montāniōsus

• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: muntagna

    Gallurese: muntagna

    Sassarese: muntagna

  • Italian: montagna
    • → Friulian: montagne
  • Neapolitan: muntagna
  • Sicilian: muntagna
    • → Maltese: muntanja
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: muntangia, montangia, montanna, muntanna, montagna, muntagna
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: muntâgna
    • Ligurian: montàgna
    • Piedmontese: montagna
  • Romansch: muntogna, muntgogna (Sutsilvan), muntagna (Puter)
  • Venetan: montagna
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: muntanya
  • Franco-Provençal: montagne
  • Old French: montaigne (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: montanha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: montaña
  • Old Leonese: montanna
    • Extremaduran: montaña
    • Mirandese: muntanha
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: montanna
    • Galician: montaña
    • Portuguese: montanha
      • Guinea-Bissau Creole: montanha
      • Kabuverdianu: montanha
  • Old Spanish: montanna
    • Ladino: montanya
    • Spanish: montaña
      • → English: Montana

• Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/monˈt-ani-a/ s.f.”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “*mŏntanea”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 415
• montania in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “montana, -nea, -nia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 704
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*montanea”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 100