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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mont.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?n/, /m??(n)/
• Homophones: mon, monts

Noun

mont (plural monts)

1. mount; mountain.

Derived terms

• Mont Blanc

Related terms

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French montre.

Noun

mont

1. watch; clock

Breton

Alternative forms

• moned

Etymology

Suppletive verb; verbal noun from Proto-Brythonic *monetu (compare Welsh mynd, Cornish mones), verbal noun of Proto-Celtic *mon-?- (compare Middle Irish muinithir (“goes around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (compare Umbrian menes (“will come”), Lithuanian mìnti (“to trample, scutch”)). Indicative forms from Proto-Celtic *ageti (“to drive”) (compare Old Irish aigid), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (compare Latin ag?). The forms in el- are from Proto-Celtic *?el- (“to approach, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (compare Latin pell? (“strike, drive”), Epic Greek ???????? (pílnamai, “approach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??nt/

Verb

mont

1. (intransitive) to go

Inflection

Conjugation

Derived terms

• mont en-dro
• mont kuit

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin montem, accusative of m?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?nt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?n/

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

1. mount, mountain

Derived terms

• Montseny
• Montserrat

Related terms

• muntanya

Further reading

• “mont” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Old French mont, from Latin montem, accusative of m?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/
• Homophones: monts, mon

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

1. (Used in certain geographic names) mountain, mount, mont
2. (In the plural) the Alps.

Derived terms

• à contre-mont
• par monts et par vaux
• promettre monts et merveilles

Related terms

• amont
• monceau
• montagne
• monter
• monticule
• montueux
• promontoire

Further reading

• “mont” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin montem, accusative of m?ns.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

1. mountain, mount

Related terms

• montagne

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?n?t/
• Rhymes: -?n?t

Noun

mont n (genitive singular monts, no plural)

1. boasting, bragging
2. conceit, arrogance

Synonyms

• (boasting): gort, grobb, raup, sjálfshól
• (conceit): yfirlæti

Derived terms

• monthani (“boaster, braggart”)
• montrass (“boaster, braggart”)

Related terms

• monta (“to boast, to brag”)
• montinn (“boastful; conceited, arrogant”)

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin montem, accusative of m?ns.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

1. mountain, mount

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin mons. Cognates include Italian monte and French mont.

Noun

mont m

1. mountain

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch munt, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz.

Noun

mont m

1. mouth (opening in the head)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: mond
  • Afrikaans: mond
• Limburgish: móndj

Further reading

• “mont”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “mont (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Noun

mont

1. Alternative form of mount

Norman

Etymology

From Old French mont, from Latin montem, accusative of m?ns.

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

1. (Jersey, geography) hill

Derived terms

• mont ès minnes (“slag heap”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin montem, accusative of m?ns.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m

1. mount

Synonyms

• montanheta
• puèg

Related terms

• montanha

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin montem, accusative of m?ns. Doublet with montaigne.

Noun

mont m (oblique plural monz or montz, nominative singular monz or montz, nominative plural mont)

1. mountain

Descendants

• French: mont
• Norman: mont (Jersey)

Etymology 2

See monde

Noun

mont m (oblique plural monz or montz, nominative singular monz or montz, nominative plural mont)

1. Alternative form of monde

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mõnt]

Noun

mont m (plural montes)

1. Apocopic form of monte; a mountain or hill.
   • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.

     Fue el dia ?cero al alba dela man. ¬ vin?er? truenos ¬ rel?pagos ¬ nuf gr?t ?obrel m?t.

     It was the early morning of the third day, and there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?t/

Noun

mont m

1. mount, mountain

English

Verb

ment

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of meng
2. Obsolete spelling of meant

Anagrams

• T-men

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin mentem, accusative singular of m?ns (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?men/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

ment f (plural ments)

1. the mind
2. the spirit

Related terms

• -ment
• dement
• mental

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular present indicative form of mentir
2. second-person singular imperative form of mentir

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

ment

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of mennen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of mennen

Estonian

Etymology

From Russian ???? (ment).

Noun

ment (genitive mendi, partitive menti)

1. (slang) cop (police officer)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• politseinik
• võmm

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular present indicative of mentir

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mentem, accusative singular of m?ns (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Noun

ment f (plural ments)

1. mind
2. intelligence

Related terms

• mentâl

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?nt]
• Hyphenation: ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From the obsolete verb menik (“to flee”) + -t (causative suffix).

Verb

ment

2. (transitive) to rescue, to save

Conjugation

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the men- stem of the verb megy +? -t.

Verb

ment

1. third-person singular past of megy

Participle

ment

1. past participle of megy
   • 1926, Gyula Juhász, Esti dal^[1] [’Evening Song’]

     De ha az alkonyat leszállott, / Olyan kedves, kámzsás barátok / A barna árnyékok nekem, / A messze menteket idézik

     But when the dusk has set in / The brown shadows are / Such nice, hooded monks for me, / Recalling those who went afar

Declension

Etymology 3

Adjective

ment (comparative mentebb, superlative legmentebb)

1. (archaic, literary) exempt

   Synonym: mentes

Declension

References

Further reading

• (to save): ment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (exempt): ment in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ment

1. past participle of mene