monte
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Leonese monte, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte m (plural montes)
Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte
Corsican
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte m (plural monti)
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French montant; equivalent to a deverbal of the modern verb monter (“to mount, go up”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte f (plural montes)
Verb
[edit]monte
- inflection of monter:
Further reading
[edit]- “monte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese monte m, from Latin montem m. Compare Portuguese monte m.
Noun
[edit]monte m (plural montes)
- mountain, mount; large hill
- wilderness; uncultivated land
- Synonym: mato
- 1466 December 3, Afonso de Moure, Frey Gómez, monje de Chantada, Chantada; republished as José Méndez Pérez, Pablo S. Otero Piñeyro Maseda, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editors, El monasterio de san Salvador de Chantada (siglos XI-XVI): historia y documentos (Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos; XL), Santiago de Compostela: CSIC, 2016, →ISBN, page 516:
- […] et britaredes o monte que esta por vritar en as ditas leyras, et prantarlos edes de vina […]
- And you'll break the wilderness that is pending on that plots, and you'll plant it with vines.
- heap, pile
- (figurative) a large quantity
- Synonym: mundo
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]monte
- inflection of montar:
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “monte”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “monte”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “monte”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “monte”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “monte”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Haitian Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French monter (“rise”), from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]monte
- to rise
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte (plural montes)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte m (plural monti)
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte f
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte m
Mauritian Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French monter, from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).
Verb
[edit]monte
References
[edit]- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin montem m.
Noun
[edit]monte m
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Old Leonese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.
Noun
[edit]monte m (plural montes)
- hill
- 1294 "Cuatro documentos asturianos del siglo xiii" by María Josefa Sanz Fuentes):
- con montes, fontes, prados, pascos, felgueras, molneras,
- with hills, fountains, fields, pastures, ferns, mills,
- 1294 "Cuatro documentos asturianos del siglo xiii" by María Josefa Sanz Fuentes):
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): [ˈmõ.tɪ], [ˈmõ.tʲ]
- Hyphenation: mon‧te
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese monte m, from Latin montem m. Compare Galician monte m.
Noun
[edit]monte m (plural montes)
- mount; a mountain or large hill
- pile; heap (a mass of things placed together so as to form a mass or elevation)
- (usually in um monte de (“a lot of”)) heap; load; pile (a great amount of something)
- (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
[edit]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
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Guinea-Bissau Creole: monti
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]monte
- inflection of montar:
Seychellois Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French monter, from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).
Verb
[edit]monte
References
[edit]- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]monte m (plural montes)
- mountain, mount
- hill
- forest, wilderness
- (Mexico) desert
- (Dominican Republic, Mexico, singular only) underbrush
- Synonym: maleza
- (Dominican Republic, Mexico, singular only) weeds
- Synonym: mala hierba
Derived terms
[edit]- achira de monte
- árnica del monte
- ayudante de montes
- capote de monte
- caracol de monte
- ceja de monte
- chajorra de monte
- cochino de monte
- corneta de monte
- cuchillo de monte
- echarse al monte
- gallo de monte
- gato de monte
- la cabra siempre tira al monte
- llevar leña al monte
- monito del monte
- monte de piedad
- monte de Venus
- Montenegro
- montero
- montés
- montesino
- montón
- no todo el monte es orégano
- papeleta del monte
- pato de monte
- pava de monte
- pepino de monte
- perejil de monte
- pie de monte
- saltamontes
- siempreviva del monte
- viejo de monte
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]monte
- inflection of montar:
Further reading
[edit]- “monte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Asturian terms inherited from Old Leonese
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- Rhymes:Galician/onte
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- Haitian Creole terms inherited from French
- Haitian Creole terms derived from French
- Haitian Creole terms inherited from Middle French
- Haitian Creole terms derived from Middle French
- Haitian Creole terms inherited from Old French
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- Haitian Creole terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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- Interlingua lemmas
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- Italian terms derived from Proto-Italic
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- Rhymes:Italian/onte
- Rhymes:Italian/onte/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- it:Geomorphology
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- it:Geography
- it:Landforms
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- Mauritian Creole terms inherited from French
- Mauritian Creole terms derived from French
- Mauritian Creole terms inherited from Middle French
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- Old Galician-Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas
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- Old Leonese terms inherited from Latin
- Old Leonese terms derived from Latin
- Old Leonese lemmas
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- Old Leonese terms with quotations
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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- Beirão Portuguese
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- Seychellois Creole terms inherited from French
- Seychellois Creole terms derived from French
- Seychellois Creole terms inherited from Middle French
- Seychellois Creole terms derived from Middle French
- Seychellois Creole terms inherited from Old French
- Seychellois Creole terms derived from Old French
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- Rhymes:Spanish/onte
- Rhymes:Spanish/onte/2 syllables
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- es:Landforms