mont

See also: Mont. and mønt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mont.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont (plural monts)

  1. mount; mountain.

Derived terms

Breton

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *monij. Cognate with Welsh mynd and Cornish mos, mones.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔ̃nt/

Verb

mont

  1. (intransitive) to go

Inflection

Conjugation

Personal forms
Indicative Conditional Imperative
Present Imperfect Preterite Future Present Imperfect
1s an aen is in afen ajen -
2s ez aes ejout i afes ajes kae (n'a in the negative)
3s a, ya ae, yae eas, yeas ay, aio, yelo afe, yafe aje, yaje aet
1p eomp aemp ejomp aimp afemp ajemp eomp, deomp
2p it aec'h ejoc'h eot afec'h ajec'h it, kit
3p eont aent ejont aint afent ajent aent
0 eer aed ejod eor afed ajed -
Impersonal forms Mutated forms
Infinitive: mont, monet
Present participle: o vont
Past participle: aet (auxiliary verb: bezañ) 		Soft mutation after a: a ya-
Mixed mutation after e: ez a-
Soft mutation after ne/na: n'a-

Derived terms

  • mont en-dro
  • mont kuit

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. mount, mountain

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

From Old French mont, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔ̃/
  • Audio(file)
  • Homophones: monts, mon

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. (Used in certain geographic names) mountain, mount, mont
  2. (In the plural) the Alps.

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. mountain, mount

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔn̥t/
  • Rhymes: -ɔn̥t

Noun

mont n (genitive singular monts, no plural)

  1. boasting, bragging
  2. conceit, arrogance

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

  • monthani (“boaster, braggart”)
  • montrass (“boaster, braggart”)
  • monta (“to boast, to brag”)
  • montinn (“boastful; conceited, arrogant”)

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. mountain, mount

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

mont m

  1. mouth (opening in the head)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: mond
  • Limburgish: móndj

Further reading

  • “mont”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “mont (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. (Jersey, geography) hill

Derived terms

  • mont ès minnes (“slag heap”)

Occitan

Etymology

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

Noun

mont m

  1. mount

Synonyms

  • montanheta
  • puèg

Old French

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

  1. mountain
Descendants

Etymology 2

See monde

Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of monde

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mõnt]

Noun

mont m (plural montes)

  1. Apocopic form of monte; a mountain or hill.
    • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.
      Fue el dia ṫcero al alba dela man. ¬ vinẏerȯ truenos ¬ relȧpagos ¬ nuf grȧt ſobrel mȯt.
      On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.
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