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Noun

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montem (plural montems)

  1. (UK, 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.
    • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.ii:
      Mr. Surface—it seems, had come home the Night before late from Salt-Hill where He had been to see the Montem with a Friend, who has a Son at Eton—

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Galician

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Verb

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montem

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of montar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Latin

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Noun

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montem

  1. accusative singular of mōns

Portuguese

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Verb

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montem

  1. inflection of montar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative