Borrowed fromSpanish monte ( “ mountain ” ) : in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards.Doublet ofmount .
monte (countable anduncountable ,plural montes )
( uncountable , card games ) A game in which three or fourcards aredealt face -up andplayers bet on which of them willfirst bematched insuit by others dealt.Hyponym: three-card monte 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, inThe New York Times [1] :A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-cardmonte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
( countable , Latin America) Awood orforest ;timberland .FromOld Leonese monte , fromLatin montem , accusative ofmōns .
IPA (key ) : /ˈmonte/ [ˈmõn̪.t̪e] Rhymes:-onte Syllabification:mon‧te monte m (plural montes )
mount ;mountain forest ,timberland "thewild ", "thewoods "Synonym: bosque Inherited fromSpanish monte .
IPA (key ) : /ˈmonte/ ,[ˈmõn̪.t̪e] Hyphenation:mon‧te monte
mountain FromLatin montem , accusative ofmōns .
monte m (plural monti )
( geomorphology , orography) mountain ,mount heap ,pile pool ,fund (of money);bank Inherited fromMiddle French montant ; equivalent to a deverbal of the modern verbmonter ( “ to mount, go up ” ) .
monte f (plural montes )
copulation ,mating season monte
inflection ofmonter : first / third-person singular present indicative / subjunctive second-person singular imperative Monte Louro ("Mount Louro")Montes nevados (snowymountains )Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese monte m , fromLatin montem m . ComparePortuguese monte m .
monte m (plural montes )
mountain ,mount ; largehill wilderness ;uncultivated landSynonym: mato 1466 December 3, Afonso de Moure,Frey Gómez, monje de Chantada , Chantada; republished as José Méndez Pérez, Pablo S. Otero Piñeyro Maseda, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editors,El monasterio de san Salvador de Chantada (siglos XI-XVI): historia y documentos (Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos; XL), Santiago de Compostela:CSIC ,2016 ,→ISBN , page516 :[ …] et britaredes omonte que esta por vritar en as ditas leyras, et prantarlos edes de vina[ …] And you'll break thewilderness that is pending on that plots, and you'll plant it with vines. heap ,pile Synonyms: montón ,morea ,rima ( figurative ) alarge quantity Synonym: mundo 2002 , J. K. Rowling,Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal , Editorial Galaxia,→ISBN , page10 :Mentres soportaba o habitual atoamento de tránsito da mañá, non tivo máis remedio que decatarse de que parecía haber unmonte de xente vestida de forma rara. As he sat in the usual morning traffic jam, he couldn't help noticing that there seemed to be alot of strangely dressed people about. See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
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inflection ofmontar : first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja ,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “monte ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “monte ”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “monte ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “monte ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “monte ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN FromFrench monter ( “ rise ” ) , fromMiddle French monter , fromOld French monter , fromVulgar Latin *montāre , fromLatin montem ( “ mountain ” ) .
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torise monte (plural montes )
mountain FromLatin montem .
monte m (plural monti )
( geomorphology , orography) mountain ,mount heap ,pile pool ,fund (of money);bank monte f
plural ofmonta monte m
ablative singular ofmōns FromFrench monter , fromMiddle French monter , fromOld French monter , fromVulgar Latin *montāre , fromLatin montem ( “ mountain ” ) .
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toclimb torise Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987.Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français Old Galician-Portuguese [ edit ] Inherited fromLatin montem m .
monte m (plural montes )
hill Galician:monte m Portuguese:monte m (see there for further descendants ) FromLatin montem , accusative ofmōns .
monte m (plural montes )
hill 1294 "Cuatro documentos asturianos del siglo xiii" by María Josefa Sanz Fuentes):conmontes , fontes, prados, pascos, felgueras, molneras, withhills , fountains, fields, pastures, ferns, mills,
Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese monte m , fromLatin montem m . CompareGalician monte m .
monte m (plural montes )
mount ; amountain or largehill Synonyms: montanha ( “ mountain ” ) ,morro ( “ large hill ” ) pile ;heap ( a mass of things placed together so as to form a mass or elevation ) Synonyms: pilha ,amontoado ( usually inum monte de ( “ a lot of ” ) ) heap ;load ;pile ( a great amount of something ) Synonyms: amontoado ,pilha ,penca Eu conheco ummonte de gente. ―I know alot of people. ( inheritance law ) a share of personal property given to someone as part of aninheritance , or the property as a whole;legacy ( Alentejo ) a rural property or group of farm buildingsMonte is usually used in reference to elevations smaller thanmontanhas ( “ mountains ” ) . However,monte (and notmontanha ) is used in the full title of mountains regardless of size:Monte Evereste ,Monte Aconcágua .
Guinea-Bissau Creole:monti See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
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inflection ofmontar : first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative FromFrench monter , fromMiddle French monter , fromOld French monter , fromVulgar Latin *montāre , fromLatin montem ( “ mountain ” ) .
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toclimb torise Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet,Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français IPA (key ) : /ˈmonte/ [ˈmõn̪.t̪e] Rhymes:-onte Syllabification:mon‧te Inherited fromLatin montem .
monte m (plural montes )
mountain ,mount hill Synonyms: cerro ,loma ,collado forest ,wilderness Synonyms: bosque ,floresta ,selva ,foresta ( Mexico ) desert Synonyms: desierto ,peladero ( Dominican Republic , Mexico , in thesingular only) underbrush Synonym: maleza ( Dominican Republic , Mexico , in thesingular only) weeds Synonym: mala hierba See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
monte
inflection ofmontar : first / third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative