Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1131.mōns on page 1131
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mōns mountain
mōns is a Latin Noun that primarily means mountain.
Definitions for mōns
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
mountain
English derivatives:
mount mountainous Montana amount catamount paramount surmount tantamount
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A mountain, hill. (b) (w. geog. name). (c) (as a type of great size or height).
- 2
(pl.) The mountainous country, the hills (as opp. to the plain).
- 3
A towering heap or mass, pile; (esp. in exprs. denoting largeness of quantity).
Sentences with mōns
Latin to English
Flūmen dē montibus in mare flūxit.Compare The river flowed down from the mountains into the sea.
Omnēs ducibus ūsī centuriōnibus tribūnīsque mīlitum in altissimōs montēs, cōnfūgērunt.Compare They all fled to the very high mountains, using the centurions and military tribunes as leader.
Et iam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, maioresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.Compare Look over there - smoke rises already from the rooftops and longer fall the shadows cast by the mountain heights.
Nihil enim hic in locus, nisi saxum et mons, cogito.Compare For I used to think that there was nothing in these places except rocks and mountains.
Terminus sum nunc imperium vester mons Taurus.Compare Mount Taurus is now the limit of your empire.
Castra promoveo, et sub mons consido.Compare He advanced his camp, and took up his position at the foot of the mountain.
Declension table for mōns
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | mōns | montēs |
| Gen. | montis | montium / -um |
| Dat. | montī | montibus |
| Acc. | montem | montēs / -īs |
| Abl. | monte | montibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 131.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1131.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 121.
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "mōns, montis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/mons-montis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 131.mōns, montis on page 131
