montar

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /monˈtaɾ/

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “montar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “montar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “montar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “montar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “montar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “montar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “montar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• Hyphenation: mon‧tar

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.

4. (Brazil, drag slang, reflexive) to transform oneself into a drag persona

   Ele se montou para o Halloween. ― He dressed up in drag for Halloween.

• “montar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Inherited from Old Spanish montar, borrowed from Old French monter,^[1] from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem.

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

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

• “montar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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

montar

1. (transitive, intransitive) to mount

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