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monte
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?nti/
- Rhymes: -?nti
Noun
monte (countable and uncountable, plural montes)
- (uncountable, card games) A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.
- Hyponym: three-card monte
- (countable, Latin America) A wood or forest; timberland.
Anagrams
- Monet, Moten, mento, mento-, meton.
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin montem, accusative of m?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?mon.te]
Noun
monte m (plural montes)
- mount (mountain?)
Chavacano
Etymology
From Spanish monte.
Noun
monte
- mountain
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??t/
Noun
monte f (plural montes)
- copulation, mating season
Verb
monte
- inflection of monter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “monte” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese monte, mõte, from Latin montem, accusative of m?ns; from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mon.t?/
Noun
monte m (plural montes)
- mountain, mount; large hill
- wilderness; uncultivated land
- 1466, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 516:
- britaredes o monte que esta por vritar en as ditas leyras, et prantarlos edes de vina
- you'll break the wilderness that is pending on that plots, and you'll plant it with vines
- britaredes o monte que esta por vritar en as ditas leyras, et prantarlos edes de vina
- Synonym: mato
- 1466, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 516:
- heap, pile
- Synonyms: montón, morea, rima
- (figuratively) a large quantity
- 2002, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal, Editorial Galaxia (?ISBN), page 10:
- Mentres soportaba o habitual atoamento de tránsito da mañá, non tivo máis remedio que decatarse de que parecía haber un monte de xente vestida de forma rara.
- As he sat in the usual morning traffic jam, he couldn't help noticing that there seemed to be a lot of strangely dressed people about.
- Mentres soportaba o habitual atoamento de tránsito da mañá, non tivo máis remedio que decatarse de que parecía haber un monte de xente vestida de forma rara.
- Synonym: mundo
- 2002, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal, Editorial Galaxia (?ISBN), page 10:
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “monte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “monte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “monte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “monte” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “monte” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French monter (“rise”)
Verb
monte
- to rise
Interlingua
Noun
monte (plural montes)
- mountain
Italian
Etymology
From Latin montem, accusative of m?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
- mónte, IPA(key): /?mon.te/
Noun
monte m (plural monti)
- (geomorphology, orography) mountain, mount
- heap, pile
- pool, fund (of money); bank
Synonyms
- montagna
Related terms
Noun
monte f
- plural of monta
Anagrams
- mento
Latin
Noun
monte
- ablative singular of m?ns
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French monter
Verb
monte
- to climb
- to rise
References
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese monte, from Latin montem, accusative of m?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?mõ.t?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?mõ.t??i/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): [?mõ.t?], [?mõ.t?]
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /?mõ.te/, [?mõ.te], [?mõ.t?]
- Hyphenation: mon?te
Noun
monte m (plural montes)
- mount; a mountain or large hill
- Synonyms: montanha (mountain), morro (large hill)
- pile; heap (a mass of things placed together so as to form a mass or elevation)
- Synonyms: pilha, amontoado
- (usually in um monte de (“a lot of”)) heap; load; pile (a great amount of something)
- Synonyms: amontoado, pilha, penca
- (inheritance law) a share of personal property given to someone as part of an inheritance, or the property as a whole; legacy
- (Alentejo) a rural property or group of farm buildings
Usage notes
Monte is usually used in reference to elevations smaller than montanhas (“mountains”). However, monte (and not montanha) is used in the full title of mountains regardless of size: Monte Evereste, Monte Aconcágua.
Derived terms
- montinho, montículo (diminutives)
- montão (augmentative)
- amontoar
Related terms
Verb
monte
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of montar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of montar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of montar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of montar
Seychellois Creole
Etymology
From French monter
Verb
monte
- to climb
- to rise
References
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?monte/, [?mõn?.t?e]
Etymology 1
From Latin montem, accusative of m?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).
Noun
monte m (plural montes)
- mountain, mount
- hill
- forest, wilderness
- (Mexico) desert
- (Dominican Republic, Mexico, singular only) underbrush
- (Dominican Republic, Mexico, singular only) weeds
- Synonyms: maleza, mala hierba
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
monte
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of montar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of montar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of montar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of montar.
Further reading
- “monte” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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montem
English
Noun
montem (plural montems)
- (Britain, historical) A former custom of Eton schoolboys to go to a hill on the Bath road every third Whit Tuesday to demand 'salt-money' from passers-by, for the university expenses of the senior scholar or school captain.
Anagrams
- moment
Latin
Noun
montem
- accusative singular of m?ns
Portuguese
Verb
montem
- third-person plural (eles and elas, also used with vocês and others) present subjunctive of montar
- third-person plural (vocês) affirmative imperative of montar
- third-person plural (vocês) negative imperative of montar
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