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"word": "mons veneris"
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"word": "kukkula"
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"ref": "2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 316",
"text": "Hesitantly, she used one finger to stroke the very top of the mons, surprised at its fatty, downy fullness — unfamiliar, despite a life of touching herself.",
"type": "quotation"
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"Ellipsis of mons pubis."
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"(anatomy) Ellipsis of mons pubis."
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"text": "Olympus Mons (on Mars)",
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"text": "Maxwell Montes (on Venus)",
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"An extraterrestrial mountain or volcano."
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"sense": "astronomy: mountain on a planet or moon",
"word": "vuori"
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"(mythology) monster (a terrifying or dangerous mystical creature)"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Mōns Casīnus"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "montānus"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "montāna"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "monticellus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "monticola"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "monticulus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Montīnus"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "montivagus"
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{
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"expansion": "→ Old English: munt\nMiddle English: mount, mont, mounte, mownt, munt\nEnglish: mount\nScots: munt",
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"text": "→ Old English: munt\nMiddle English: mount, mont, mounte, mownt, munt\nEnglish: mount\nScots: munt"
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"expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: monte m\nGalician: monte m\nPortuguese: monte m (see there for further descendants)",
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"3": "*men-",
"4": "",
"5": "to stand out, to tower"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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{
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"plural"
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{
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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{
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{
"english": "much is promised, but little will be performed; the mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"word": "parturiunt montēs, nāscētur rīdiculus mūs"
},
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"english": "to make great promises; to promise mountains of gold",
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"word": "montēs aurī pollicērī"
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{
"english": "Aquitania extends from the Garonne river to the Pyrenaean mountains and that part of the ocean which reaches Iberia...",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1",
"text": "Aquītānia ā Garumnā flūmine ad Pȳrēnaeōs mōntēs et eam partem Ōceanī quae est ad Hispāniam pertinet..."
},
{
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.60–62",
"text": "Sed pater omnipotēns spēluncīs abdidit ātrīs,\nhoc metuēns, mōlemque et montīs īnsuper altōs\nimposuit, ….\nBut the all-powerful Father [Jupiter] had hidden [the winds] in dark caverns, [because he was] fearing this [destruction], and above [them] he placed massive high mountains, ….\n(The words “molemque et montis” exemplify alliteration and hendiadys.)"
},
{
"english": "And men go to marvel at the heights of mountains and the huge waves of the sea and the widest courses of rivers and the flow of the ocean and the circuits of the stars, and they forsake themselves, […].",
"ref": "397 CE – 400 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Cōnfessiōnēs 10.8",
"text": "et eunt hominēs mīrārī alta montium et ingentēs flūctūs maris et lātissimōs lāpsūs flūminum et ōceanī ambitum et gȳrōs sīderum, et relinquunt sē ipsōs, …"
}
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"glosses": [
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"id": "en-mons-la-noun-kz8kRfft",
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"mountain",
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"english": "To these hills, one day, the whole world is promised.",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.517",
"text": "montibus hīs ōlim tōtus prōmittitur orbis"
}
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"hill"
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"hill#English"
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},
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin metonyms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
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],
"glosses": [
"towering mass, heap, great quantity"
],
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"heap#English"
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"(metonymically) towering mass, heap, great quantity"
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"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
]
},
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"categories": [
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"parents": [],
"source": "w"
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],
"glosses": [
"mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)"
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"rock",
"rock#English"
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"(metonymically) mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)"
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]
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 20 4 8 50 9",
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"english": "much is promised, but little will be performed; the mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born",
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"english": "Aquitania extends from the Garonne river to the Pyrenaean mountains and that part of the ocean which reaches Iberia...",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1",
"text": "Aquītānia ā Garumnā flūmine ad Pȳrēnaeōs mōntēs et eam partem Ōceanī quae est ad Hispāniam pertinet..."
},
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"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.60–62",
"text": "Sed pater omnipotēns spēluncīs abdidit ātrīs,\nhoc metuēns, mōlemque et montīs īnsuper altōs\nimposuit, ….\nBut the all-powerful Father [Jupiter] had hidden [the winds] in dark caverns, [because he was] fearing this [destruction], and above [them] he placed massive high mountains, ….\n(The words “molemque et montis” exemplify alliteration and hendiadys.)"
},
{
"english": "And men go to marvel at the heights of mountains and the huge waves of the sea and the widest courses of rivers and the flow of the ocean and the circuits of the stars, and they forsake themselves, […].",
"ref": "397 CE – 400 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Cōnfessiōnēs 10.8",
"text": "et eunt hominēs mīrārī alta montium et ingentēs flūctūs maris et lātissimōs lāpsūs flūminum et ōceanī ambitum et gȳrōs sīderum, et relinquunt sē ipsōs, …"
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"english": "To these hills, one day, the whole world is promised.",
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],
"glosses": [
"mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)"
],
"links": [
[
"rock",
"rock#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metonymically) mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms"
],
"glosses": [
"mountain beasts, wild beasts (Late Latin, poetically)"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metonymically) mountain beasts, wild beasts (Late Latin, poetically)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms"
],
"glosses": [
"(of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column"
],
"links": [
[
"marble",
"marble#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metonymically) (of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mons/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[mõːs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/mons/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[mɔns]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"la:Mons"
],
"word": "mons"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "mons",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Swedish entries with incorrect language header",
"Swedish non-lemma forms",
"Swedish noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "mo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"definite genitive singular of mo"
],
"links": [
[
"mo",
"mo#Swedish"
]
],
"tags": [
"definite",
"form-of",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "mons"
}
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