"mons" meaning in Latin

See mons in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /mons/ [Classical], [mõːs̠] [Classical], /mons/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [mɔns] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *monts, from Proto-Indo-European *món-tis, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”). Compare Old Breton monid, Breton menez, Cornish meneth, Welsh mynydd. Etymology templates: {{inh|la|itc-pro|*monts}} Proto-Italic *monts, {{der|la|ine-pro|*men-||to stand out, to tower}} Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”), {{cog|obt|monid}} Old Breton monid, {{cog|br|menez}} Breton menez, {{cog|kw|meneth}} Cornish meneth, {{cog|cy|mynydd}} Welsh mynydd Head templates: {{la-noun|mōns<3.I>|g=m}} mōns m (genitive montis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|mōns<3.I>}} Forms: mōns [canonical, masculine], montis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], mōns [nominative, singular], montēs [nominative, plural], montis [genitive, singular], montium [genitive, plural], montī [dative, singular], montibus [dative, plural], montem [accusative, singular], montēs [accusative, plural], montīs [accusative, plural], monte [ablative, singular], montibus [ablative, plural], mōns [singular, vocative], montēs [plural, vocative]
  1. mountain, mount Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-mons-la-noun-kz8kRfft
  2. hill Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-mons-la-noun-93~Lsh3e
  3. (metonymically) towering mass, heap, great quantity Tags: declension-3, metonymically
    Sense id: en-mons-la-noun-SWM94uJH Categories (other): Latin metonyms
  4. (metonymically) mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically) Tags: declension-3, metonymically
    Sense id: en-mons-la-noun-ly-kay-Z Categories (other): Latin metonyms
  5. (metonymically) mountain beasts, wild beasts (Late Latin, poetically) Tags: declension-3, metonymically Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-mons-la-noun-KfbdcyLc Disambiguation of Landforms: 8 20 4 8 50 9 Categories (other): Latin metonyms, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 1 1 5 6 76 11 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 5 5 13 13 52 11
  6. (metonymically) (of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column Tags: declension-3, metonymically
    Sense id: en-mons-la-noun-ptYIPqcK Categories (other): Latin metonyms
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Mōns Casīnus, montānus, montāna, monticellus, monticola, monticulus, Montīnus, montivagus, montuōsus

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  "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"
      ],
      "word": "parturiunt montēs, nāscētur rīdiculus mūs"
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    {
      "english": "to make great promises; to promise mountains of gold",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "montēs aurī pollicērī"
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      "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..."
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.517",
          "text": "montibus hīs ōlim tōtus prōmittitur orbis"
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        "(of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column"
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        "(metonymically) (of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column"
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      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/mons/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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      "ipa": "[mɔns]",
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    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
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    {
      "word": "Mōns Casīnus"
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    {
      "word": "montānus"
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    {
      "word": "montāna"
    },
    {
      "word": "monticellus"
    },
    {
      "word": "monticola"
    },
    {
      "word": "monticulus"
    },
    {
      "word": "Montīnus"
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    {
      "word": "montivagus"
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      "word": "montuōsus"
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          "name": "desc"
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          "expansion": "French: mont",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: mont"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "mont"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: mont",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: mont"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ist",
            "2": "monto"
          },
          "expansion": "Istriot: monto",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Istriot: monto"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "monte"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: monte",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: monte"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "mont"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: mont",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: mont"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ang",
            "2": "munt",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old English: munt\nMiddle English: mount, mont, mounte, mownt, munt\nEnglish: mount\nScots: munt",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old English: munt\nMiddle English: mount, mont, mounte, mownt, munt\nEnglish: mount\nScots: munt"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "roa-opt",
            "2": "monte",
            "g": "m"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese: monte m\nGalician: monte m\nPortuguese: monte m (see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: monte m\nGalician: monte m\nPortuguese: monte m (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "munte"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: munte",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: munte"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "monte"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian: monte",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: monte"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "munti"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: munti",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: munti"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "monte"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: monte",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: monte"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "mónte"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: mónte",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: mónte"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "VL.",
            "2": "*montāre"
          },
          "expansion": "Vulgar Latin: *montāre",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Vulgar Latin: *montāre (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*monts"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *monts",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*men-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to stand out, to tower"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "obt",
        "2": "monid"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Breton monid",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "br",
        "2": "menez"
      },
      "expansion": "Breton menez",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kw",
        "2": "meneth"
      },
      "expansion": "Cornish meneth",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "mynydd"
      },
      "expansion": "Welsh mynydd",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *monts, from Proto-Indo-European *món-tis, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”). Compare Old Breton monid, Breton menez, Cornish meneth, Welsh mynydd.",
  "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",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "monte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mōns",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "montēs",
      "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"
      ],
      "word": "parturiunt montēs, nāscētur rīdiculus mūs"
    },
    {
      "english": "to make great promises; to promise mountains of gold",
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ],
      "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..."
        },
        {
          "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, …"
        }
      ],
      "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, Ovid, Fasti 1.517",
          "text": "montibus hīs ōlim tōtus prōmittitur orbis"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hill"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hill",
          "hill#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin metonyms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "towering mass, heap, great quantity"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heap",
          "heap#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(metonymically) 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": [
        "(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"
}

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