Where does “mont” come from?

mont (French) comes from Old French mont, from Latin montem, from Latin mons, from Proto-Indo-European monti, from Portuguese Monte, from Old Portuguese monte.

mont (French): mountain, mount, mont; the Alps

Definitions

  1. mountain, mount, mont; the Alps

Ancestry of “mont”, step by step

mont traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French mont

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmontmountain; Alternative form of monde
2Latinmontemaccusative singular of mōns; mountain
3Latinmonsmountain, mount; towering mass, heap, great...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmonti—
5PortugueseMontemount; a mountain or large hill
6Old Portuguesemonte—

via Latin mōns

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmōnsmountain, mount
2Indo-European*men-—

Words derived from “mont”

Every word from Old Portuguese monte →