mont

Borrowed from French mont.

• IPA^(key): /mɒn/, /mɒ̃(n)/

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• Rhymes: -ɒn
• Homophones: mon, monts

mont (plural monts)

1. mount; mountain.

• Mont Blanc

From French montre.

mont

1. watch; clock

• moned

Suppletive verb; verbal noun from Proto-Brythonic *monetu (compare Welsh mynd, Cornish mones), verbal noun of Proto-Celtic *mon-ī- (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 *h₂eǵ- (compare Latin agō). The forms in el- are from Proto-Celtic *ɸel- (“to approach, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (compare Latin pellō (“strike, drive”), Epic Greek πίλναμαι (pílnamai, “approach”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃nt/

mont

1. (intransitive) to go

• mont en-dro
• mont kuit

Inherited from Old Catalan mont, from Latin montem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmon]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmont]

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• Homophones: món, mon, Mon, Mont

mont m (plural monts)

1. (archaic or toponyms) mount, mountain

   Synonyms: munt, muntanya

• Montseny
• Montserrat

• muntanya

• “mont” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mont”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mont” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mont” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mont (Old Beaujolais, Old Dauphinois)

1. Alternative form of mondo (“world”)

• mont in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŭndus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 218

Inherited from Old French mont, from Latin montem.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃/

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• Homophones: monts, mon

mont m (plural monts)

1. mountain, mount, mont
2. (in the plural) the Alps

(proper nouns):

• “mont”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

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mont m (plural monts)

1. mountain, mount

• montagne

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔn̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔn̥t

mont n (genitive singular monts, no plural)

1. boasting, bragging
2. conceit, arrogance

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

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

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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmont/, [ˈmo̞nd]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmont/, [ˈmo̞nd̥]
• Rhymes: -ont
• Hyphenation: mont

mont (+ partitive)

1. Alternative form of monta
   • 1937, N. S. Popova, translated by A. Kolesova, Arifmetikan oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (I. osa), Leningrad: Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:

     Mont sahhaaja? Mont tööläist?

     How many sawyers? How many workers?

mont

1. Alternative form of monta

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 314

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

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mont f (plural montes)

1. mountain, mount, plateau

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

mont m

1. mountain

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

mont m

1. mouth (opening in the head)

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• Dutch: mond, mont (obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: mond
  • Javindo: mon
  • Negerhollands: mond, mon, mun, mont
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: mon, mout (dated)
  • Petjo: mon
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: mont
• Limburgish: móndj

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

mont

1. Alternative form of mount

From Old French mont, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

mont m (plural monts)

1. (Jersey, geography) hill

• mont ès minnes (“slag heap”)

From Old Occitan, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

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mont m

1. mount

• montanheta
• puèg

• montanha

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns. Doublet with montaigne.

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

1. mountain

• French: mont
• Norman: mont (Jersey)

See monde

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

1. Alternative form of monde

• IPA^(key): /ˈmont/

mont m (plural montes)

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

     Fue el dia t̃cero al alba dela man. ⁊ vinẏerõ truenos ⁊ relãpagos ⁊ nuf grãt ſobrel mõt.

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

From Latin mons.

• IPA^(key): /muŋt/

mont m

1. mount, mountain

From bont.

mont n (plural monturi)

1. bunion