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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

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (???, “camel”), Sauraseni Prakrit ???????????????? (u??a), from Sanskrit ?????? (u??ra, “camel”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *úštras (“camel; buffalo”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian) IPA^(key): /?nt/
• (India) IPA^(key): /??t/, /???/

Noun

oont (plural oonts)

1. (India (Anglo-Indian), Australia, colloquial) A camel. [from 19th c.]

Notes

Further reading

• “oont” in the Collins English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Toon, noot, noto-, on to, onto, onto-, tono-, toon