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English

Etymology

From Spanish montón.

Noun

monton (plural montons)

  1. (mining) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
  2. (mining, historical) A Mexican unit of weight for ore, varying from 1,800 to 3,200 Spanish pounds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “monton”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Noun

monton

  1. accusative singular of monto

Old French

Etymology

mont (“mountain”) +‎ -on (augmentative suffix)

Noun

monton oblique singular, m (oblique plural montons, nominative singular montons, nominative plural monton)

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Further reading

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (monton)
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