Where does “montanna” come from?

montanna (Old Spanish) comes from Latin montānia, from Latin montem, from Latin mons, from Proto-Indo-European monti, from Portuguese Monte, from Old Portuguese monte.

montanna (Old Spanish): mountain

Definitions

  1. mountain

Ancestry of “montanna”, step by step

montanna traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin montānia

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

via Medieval Latin montana

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinmontananominative feminine singular of montānus;...
2LatinMontānusof or pertaining to a mountain, especially
3Latinmōnsmountain, mount
4Indo-European*men-—

Words derived from “montanna”

Every word from Old Portuguese monte →Every word from Latin montem →Every word from Latin mons →