"Montréal" meaning in French

See Montréal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /mɔ̃.ʁe.al/ [Belgium, France], /mõ.ʁe.al/ [Canada], /mõ.ʁjal/ [Canada], /mɔ.ʁe.al/ [Canada], /mɔ.ʁjal/ [Canada] Audio: Fr-Montréal.ogg , Qc-Montréal.ogg
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French Montreal, from Mont Royal (“Mount Royal”), after the nearby mountain, Mont Royal, named by Jacques Cartier. It is uncertain how Royal became -real. A common explanation is that real is the Middle French form of Royal, but Cartier himself recorded le mont Royal when he named it. It may have perhaps been from the Italian G.B. Rasmusio's 1556 map translating the name to Italian as Monte Real. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|Montreal|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French Montreal, {{inh+|fr|frm|Montreal}} Inherited from Middle French Montreal Head templates: {{fr-proper noun}} Montréal ?
  1. Montreal (an island on which is situated the largest city in Quebec, Canada) Categories (place): Cities in Canada, Cities in Quebec, Canada, Islands, Montreal, Places in Canada, Places in Quebec, Canada
    Sense id: en-Montréal-fr-name-IzS4rndh Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 38 17 2 30 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 15 5 29 13
  2. Montréal (a commune of Ardèche department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) Categories (place): Places in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Places in France
    Sense id: en-Montréal-fr-name-NghIszBn Categories (other): Communes of France
  3. Montréal (a commune of Aude department, Occitania, France) Categories (place): Places in France, Places in Occitania, France
    Sense id: en-Montréal-fr-name-O8p~QY~v Categories (other): Communes of France
  4. Montréal (a commune of Gers department, Occitania, France) Categories (place): Places in France, Places in Occitania, France
    Sense id: en-Montréal-fr-name-DS7px7k1 Categories (other): Communes of France, Pages with 9 entries Disambiguation of Pages with 9 entries: 30 13 7 38 12
  5. Montréal (a commune of Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France) Categories (place): Places in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Places in France
    Sense id: en-Montréal-fr-name-gGkRnmFt Categories (other): Communes of France
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: melon de Montréal, montréalais, Montréalais

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.