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

• Monet, Moten, mento, mento-

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmon.te]

monte m (plural montes)

1. mount (mountain?)

From Spanish monte.

monte

1. mountain

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃t/

monte f (plural montes)

1. copulation, mating season

monte

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

• “monte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese monte, mõte, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns; from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmon.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. (figuratively) 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.

• “monte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “monte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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

monte

1. mountain

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

• mónte, IPA^(key): /ˈmonte/

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

monte

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

From Old Portuguese monte, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

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

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 Everest, Monte Aconcágua.

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

monte

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of montar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of montar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of montar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of montar

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/, [ˈmõn̪t̪e]

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mountain”).

monte m (plural montes)

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

   Synonyms: maleza, mala hierba

See the etymology of the main entry.

monte

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of montar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of montar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of montar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of montar.

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