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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?ns (“mountain”). Doublet of mount.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?nz/

Noun

mons (plural montes)

1. (obsolete, palmistry) One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount.
2. 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.
3. (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

1. (dialectal) masculine plural of mon

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Borrowed from French monstre (“monster”).

Noun

mons

1. (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

1. mountain, mount
2. (metonymically) towering mass, heap, great quantity
3. (metonymically) mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)
4. (metonymically) mountain beasts, wild beasts (Late Latin, poetically)
5. (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

1. definite genitive singular of mo

English

Noun

ions

1. plural of ion

Anagrams

• -osin, -sion, Ison, NOIs, Sino-, Sion, Soni, ison, onis, sino-, sion

Catalan

Noun

ions

1. plural of ió

French

Noun

ions m

1. plural of ion