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mons
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin m?ns (“mountain”). Doublet of mount.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?nz/
Noun
mons (plural montes)
- (obsolete, palmistry) One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount.
- The pubic mound or mons pubis. In human anatomy or in mammals in general, the mons pubis (Latin for "pubic mound"), also known as the mons veneris (Latin, mound of Venus) or simply the mons, is the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone of adult females, anterior to the pubic symphysis. The mons pubis forms the anterior portion of the vulva.
- (astronomy, geology) A mountain or extinct volcano on a planet or a moon.
- Olympus Mons (Mars)
- Maxwell Montes (Venus).
Translations
Anagrams
- MNOs, nMOS, noms
Catalan
Alternative forms
- (standard) mos
Determiner
mons
- (dialectal) masculine plural of mon
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Borrowed from French monstre (“monster”).
Noun
mons
- (mythology) monster (a terrifying or dangerous mystical creature)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *montis, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”). Compare Old Breton monid, Breton menez, Cornish meneth, Welsh mynydd.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mons/, [mõ?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mons/, [m?ns]
Noun
m?ns m (genitive montis); third declension
- mountain, mount
- (metonymically) towering mass, heap, great quantity
- (metonymically) mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)
- (metonymically) mountain beasts, wild beasts (Late Latin, poetically)
- (metonymically) (of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Proverbs
- parturiunt mont?s, n?sc?tur r?diculus m?s (“much is promised, but little will be performed”, literally “the mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born”).
- mont?s aur? pollic?r? (“to make great promises”, literally “to promise mountains of gold”).
Descendants
References
- mons in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mons in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Swedish
Noun
mons
- definite genitive singular of mo
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cons
English
Etymology 1
Noun
cons
- plural of con
Etymology 2
Clipping of construct.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?nz/, /?k?ns/
Noun
cons (plural conses)
- (programming) A data structure in LISP that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
- Synonym: cons cell
- Meronyms: car, cdr
Verb
cons (third-person singular simple present conses, present participle consing, simple past and past participle consed)
- (programming) To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
Etymology 3
Verb
cons
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of con
Anagrams
- CNOs, NCOs, NOCs, OCNs, ONCs, ONSC, scon
Catalan
Noun
cons
- plural of con
French
Noun
cons m
- plural of con
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