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Where does “monta” come from?

monta (Italian) comes from Italian montare, from French monter, from French mont, from Old French mont, from Latin montem, from Latin mons, from Proto-Indo-European monti, from Portuguese Monte.

monta (Italian): covering, leap; riding, mount; third-person...

Definitions

  1. covering, leap; riding, mount; third-person...

Ancestry of “monta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianmontareto mount; to whip, beat, whisk; to inflate or...
2Frenchmonterto go up, to climb; to ascend, go higher, go...
3Frenchmontmountain, mount, mont; the Alps
4Old Frenchmontmountain; Alternative form of monde
5Latinmontemaccusative singular of mōns; mountain
6Latinmonsmountain, mount; towering mass, heap, great...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmonti—
8PortugueseMonte—
9Old Portuguesemonte—

Words derived from “monta”

  • Montepulciano
  • tramontare
  • Valmontone
  • tramonto
  • Montepulciano
  • intramontabile
  • intramontabilmente
  • monte
  • Monte
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