monticola

See also: Monticola

Latin

Etymology

From mōns (“mountain”) + -i- + colō (“to inhabit”) + -a (suffix forming agent nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /monˈti.ko.la/, [mɔn̪ˈt̪ɪkɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /monˈti.ko.la/, [mon̪ˈt̪iːkolä]

Noun

monticola m or f (genitive monticolae); first declension

1. mountain dweller, mountaineer
   • 8, Ovid, Metamorphoses, Lib. I, lines 192–195, London: Davidson, et al, published 1797, page 17:

     Sunt mihi Semidei, sunt rustica numina Fauni,/ Et Nymphae, Satyrique, et monticolae Silvani:/ Quos quoniam coeli nondum dignamur honore,/ Quas dedimus, certe terras habitare sinamus.

     There are demi-gods and Nymphs, a race of rural deities, Fauns, Satyrs and Sylvians, inhabitants of the mountains, who, though not yet worthy to be received into the heavenly mansions, deserve at least an undisturbed possession of the earth, which we have assigned them.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	monticola	monticolae
Genitive	monticolae	monticolārum
Dative	monticolae	monticolīs
Accusative	monticolam	monticolās
Ablative	monticolā	monticolīs
Vocative	monticola	monticolae

Descendants

• Translingual: Monticola

References

• “monticola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “monticola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• monticola in John T. White (1920), A Latin-English dictionary for the use of junior students, Boston: Ginn.
• monticola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.