montar

Asturian

Etymology

Ultimately from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).

Verb

montar

1. to mount; get on (a vehicle, horse, bicycle, escalator etc.)
2. to ride (bike, bicycle, escalator etc.)
3. to put together; to assemble
4. to stack; to pile up
5. to mount; ride (sexually)
6. to ready; to prepare (an event etc.)
7. to set up; to establish
8. to beat (eggs, cream etc.)
9. (reflexive) to play truant

Conjugation

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese montar, from Old French monter from Vulgar Latin *mōntāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /monˈtaɾ/

Verb

montar (first-person singular present monto, first-person singular preterite montei, past participle montado)

1. to ride
2. to amount to; to increase
3. to assemble
4. (navigation) to round (a cape)
5. (zoology) to mount

Conjugation

Related terms

References

• “montar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “montar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “montar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “montar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “montar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “montar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “montar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese montar, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *mōntāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mon‧tar

Verb

montar (first-person singular present monto, first-person singular preterite montei, past participle montado)

1. to go up, climb
2. to mount, to ride

   O cavaleiro montou o seu cavalo. ― The rider mounted his horse.

3. to assemble

   Ele montou o puzzle. ― He assembled the puzzle.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• monta-cargas

Further reading

• “montar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish montar, borrowed from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /monˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mon‧tar

Verb

montar (first-person singular present monto, first-person singular preterite monté, past participle montado)

1. to mount
2. to ride
3. to set up
4. to establish
5. (Spain, cooking) to whip, beat
6. (reflexive) to hump

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Further reading

• “montar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Venetian

Etymology

From Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre (“climb”), from Classical Latin montem (“mountain”). Compare Italian montare.

Verb

montar

1. (transitive, intransitive) to mount

Conjugation

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.