montania

montania (plural montanias)

1. mountain

• montāna, montānea

Borrowed from Old Catalan and other Romance sources which inherited it from Vulgar Latin *montānea. Attested from the 11th century.

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /monˈta.ni.a/, [mon̪ˈt̪äːniä]

montania f (genitive montaniae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) mountain
   • 1035, Testamentum Guifredi Comitis Cerritanensis:

     Et ipsa montania relinquo filio meo Berengario...

     And I leave [ownership of] the mountain to my son Berengar...

First-declension noun.

• montania in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “montana, -nea, -nia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 704