See mons in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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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, Vergilius, Aeneis 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.)",
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"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, …",
"translation": "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, […].",
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"english": "To these hills, one day, the whole world is promised.",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.517",
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"descendants": [
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"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "monte"
},
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"word": "monte"
}
],
"lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
"lang_code": "roa-opt",
"raw_tags": [
"m"
],
"word": "monte"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"word": "monte"
}
],
"lang": "Ibero-Romance",
"lang_code": "unknown"
},
{
"lang": "Vulgar Latin",
"lang_code": "la-vul",
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"reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
],
"word": "*montāre"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "mount"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "munt"
}
],
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"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "mount"
},
{
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{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "mount"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "munt"
}
],
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"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "mont"
},
{
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{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "mount"
},
{
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"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "munt"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "mounte"
},
{
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{
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"lang_code": "en",
"word": "mount"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "munt"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "mownt"
},
{
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{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "mount"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "munt"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "munt"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "munt"
}
],
"lang": "Borrowings",
"lang_code": "unknown"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"*men-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/men-#Proto-Indo-European:_stand_out"
],
[
"*-tis",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-tis"
],
[
"*monts",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/monts"
],
[
"*monts",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/monts"
],
[
"*men-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/men-#Proto-Indo-European:_stand_out"
],
[
"*moniyos",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/moniyos"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": ":inh",
"3": "itc-pro:*monts<ety:inh<ine-pro:<alt:*móntis><ety:af<*men-<id:stand out>><*-tis>>>>",
"title": "mōns",
"tree": "1"
},
"expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *men-\nProto-Indo-European *-tis\nProto-Indo-European *móntis\nProto-Italic *monts\nLatin mōns\n[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*monts\", \"status\" : \"inline\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"mōns\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }\" data-lang=\"la\" data-title=\"mōns\">",
"name": "etymon"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*monts"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *monts",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "",
"4": "*món-tis"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *món-tis",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cel-pro",
"2": "*moniyos"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Celtic *moniyos",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *men-\nProto-Indo-European *-tis\nProto-Indo-European *móntis\nProto-Italic *monts\nLatin mōns\nFrom Proto-Italic *monts, from Proto-Indo-European *món-tis, from the root *men- (“to stand out, to tower”). Compare Proto-Celtic *moniyos.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mōns",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "montis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "mōns",
"links": [
[
"mōns",
"mons#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "montēs",
"links": [
[
"montēs",
"montes#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "montis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "montium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "montī",
"links": [
[
"montī",
"monti#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "montibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "montem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "montēs",
"links": [
[
"montēs",
"montes#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "montīs",
"links": [
[
"montīs",
"montis#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "monte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "montibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "mōns",
"links": [
[
"mōns",
"mons#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "montēs",
"links": [
[
"montēs",
"montes#Latin"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mōns<3.I>",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "mōns m (genitive montis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mōns<3.I>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"proverbs": [
{
"english": "much is promised, but little will be performed; the mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "much is promised, but little will be performed; the mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born",
"word": "parturiunt montēs, nāscētur rīdiculus mūs"
},
{
"english": "to make great promises; to promise mountains of gold",
"tags": [
"literally"
],
"translation": "to make great promises; to promise mountains of gold",
"word": "montēs aurī pollicērī"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"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...",
"translation": "Aquitania extends from the Garonne river to the Pyrenaean mountains and that part of the ocean which reaches Iberia...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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.)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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, …",
"translation": "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, […].",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"mountain, mount"
],
"links": [
[
"mountain",
"mountain#English"
],
[
"mount",
"mount#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "To these hills, one day, the whole world is promised.",
"ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.517",
"text": "montibus hīs ōlim tōtus prōmittitur orbis",
"translation": "To these hills, one day, the whole world is promised.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"hill"
],
"links": [
[
"hill",
"hill#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms"
],
"glosses": [
"towering mass, heap, great quantity"
],
"links": [
[
"heap",
"heap#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metonymic) towering mass, heap, great quantity"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms"
],
"glosses": [
"mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)"
],
"links": [
[
"rock",
"rock#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metonymic) mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin metonyms"
],
"glosses": [
"mountain beasts, wild beasts (Late Latin, poetically)"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metonymic) 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": [
"(metonymic) (of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈmõːs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈmɔns]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "mons"
}
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