monte

Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.

• IPA^(key): /mɒnti/
• Rhymes: -ɒnti

monte (countable and uncountable, plural montes)

1. (uncountable, card games) A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.

   Hyponym: three-card monte

2. (countable, Latin America) A wood or forest; timberland.

• Monet, Moten, mento, mento-, meton.

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonte/, [ˈmõn̪.t̪e]

monte m (plural montes)

1. mount; mountain

From Spanish monte.

monte

1. mountain

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔnte/

monte m (plural monti)

1. (geomorphology, orography) mountain, mount
2. heap, pile
3. pool, fund (of money); bank

• muntagna

From Middle French montant; equivalent to a deverbal of the modern verb monter (“to mount, go up”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃t/

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monte f (plural montes)

1. copulation, mating season

monte

1. inflection of monter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “monte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese monte, mõte, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmõn.tɪ]

monte m (plural montes)

1. mountain, mount; large hill
2. wilderness; uncultivated land
   • 1466, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 516:

     britaredes o monte que esta por vritar en as ditas leyras, et prantarlos edes de vina

     you'll break the wilderness that is pending on that plots, and you'll plant it with vines

   Synonym: mato

3. heap, pile

   Synonyms: montón, morea, rima

4. (figurative) a large quantity
   • 2002, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 10:

     Mentres soportaba o habitual atoamento de tránsito da mañá, non tivo máis remedio que decatarse de que parecía haber un monte 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 a lot of strangely dressed people about.

   Synonym: mundo

• “monte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “monte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “monte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “monte” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “monte” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From French monter (“rise”).

monte

1. to rise

monte (plural montes)

1. mountain

From Latin montem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmon.te/
• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: món‧te

monte m (plural monti)

1. (geomorphology, orography) mountain, mount
2. heap, pile
3. pool, fund (of money); bank

• montagna

monte f

1. plural of monta

• -mento, mento

monte m

1. ablative singular of mōns

From French monter.

monte

1. to climb
2. to rise

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈmõ.tɪ], [ˈmõ.tʲ]
• Hyphenation: mon‧te

From Old Portuguese monte, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

monte m (plural montes)

1. mount; a mountain or large hill

   Synonyms: montanha (“mountain”), morro (“large hill”)

2. pile; heap (a mass of things placed together so as to form a mass or elevation)

   Synonyms: pilha, amontoado

3. (usually in um monte de (“a lot of”)) heap; load; pile (a great amount of something)

   Eu conheco um monte de gente. ― I know a lot of people.

   Synonyms: amontoado, pilha, penca

4. (inheritance law) a share of personal property given to someone as part of an inheritance, or the property as a whole; legacy
5. (Alentejo) a rural property or group of farm buildings

Monte is usually used in reference to elevations smaller than montanhas (“mountains”). However, monte (and not montanha) is used in the full title of mountains regardless of size: Monte Evereste, Monte Aconcágua.

• montinho (diminutive), montículo (diminutive)
• montão (augmentative)
• amontoar

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: monti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

monte

1. inflection of montar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From French monter.

monte

1. to climb
2. to rise

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonte/ [ˈmõn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -onte
• Syllabification: mon‧te

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

monte m (plural montes)

1. mountain, mount
2. hill
3. forest, wilderness
4. (Mexico) desert
5. (Dominican Republic, Mexico, singular only) underbrush
6. (Dominican Republic, Mexico, singular only) weeds

   Synonyms: maleza, mala hierba

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

monte

1. inflection of montar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “monte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014