monte
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- (countable, Latin America) A wood or forest; timberland.
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monte m (plural montes)
- mount (mountain?)
ChavacanoEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monte f (plural montes)
VerbEdit
monte
- inflection of monter:
Further readingEdit
- “monte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese monte, mõte, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns; from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monte m (plural montes)
- mountain, mount; large hill
- wilderness
- Synonym: mato
- heap, pile
- (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.
- 2002, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal, Editorial Galaxia (→ISBN), page 10:
Derived termsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- “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 Santamarina, Antón (dir.), Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja: Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (v 4.0). Santiago: ILG.
- “monte” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Haitian CreoleEdit
InterlinguaEdit
InterlingueEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin montem, accusative of mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
monte m (plural monti)
SynonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
NounEdit
monte f
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
Mauritian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
monte
ReferenceEdit
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese monte, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmõ.tɨ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmõ.t͡ʃi/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): [ˈmõ.tɪ], [ˈmõ.tʲ]
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmõ.te/, [ˈmõ.te], [ˈmõ.tɪ]
- Hyphenation: mon‧te
NounEdit
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 notesEdit
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 Everest, Monte Aconcágua.
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VerbEdit
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 CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
monte
ReferenceEdit
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin montem, accusative of mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).
NounEdit
monte m (plural montes)
- mountain, mount
- forest, wilderness
- (Dominican Republic, Mexico, singular only) underbrush
- (Dominican Republic, Mexico, singular only) weeds
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
VerbEdit
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 readingEdit
- “monte” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.