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): /ˈmɒnti/

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• 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.

   Hyponym: three-card monte

   • 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.

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

• monte-jus

• Monet, meton., Moten, mento-, mento, Mento

From Old Leonese monte, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonte/ [ˈmõn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -onte
• Syllabification: mon‧te

monte m (plural montes)

1. mount; mountain
2. forest, timberland "the wild", "the woods"

   Synonym: bosque

Inherited from Spanish monte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonte/, [ˈmõn̪.t̪e]
• Hyphenation: mon‧te

monte

1. mountain

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔnte/

monte m (plural monti)

1. (geomorphology, orography) mountain, mount
2. heap, pile
3. pool, fund (of money); bank

• muntagna

Inherited from Middle French montant; equivalent to a deverbal of the modern verb monter (“to mount, go up”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃t/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Hyphenation: monte

monte f (plural montes)

1. copulation

   Synonym: copulation

2. mating season

   Synonym: saison des amours

monte

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

• “monte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonte/ [ˈmõn̪.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: mon‧te

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese monte m, from Latin montem m. Compare Portuguese monte m.

monte m (plural montes)

1. mountain, mount; large hill
2. wilderness; uncultivated land

   Synonym: mato

   • 1466 December 3, Afonso de Moure, Frey Gómez, monje de Chantada, Chantada; republished as José Méndez Pérez, Pablo S. Otero Piñeyro Maseda, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editors, El monasterio de san Salvador de Chantada (siglos XI-XVI): historia y documentos (Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos; XL), Santiago de Compostela: CSIC, 2016, →ISBN, page 516:

     […] et britaredes o monte que esta por vritar en as ditas leyras, et prantarlos edes de vina […]

     And you'll break the wilderness that is pending on that plots, and you'll plant it with vines.

3. heap, pile

   Synonyms: montón, morea, rima

4. (figurative) a large quantity

   Synonym: mundo

   • 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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

monte

1. inflection of montar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “monte”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “monte”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “monte”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “monte”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “monte”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From French monter (“to rise”), from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃te/

monte

1. (intransitive) to rise, to ascend, to climb
2. (transitive) to raise

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 132

monte (plural montes)

1. mountain

From Latin montem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmon.te/
• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: món‧te

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, mento

monte m

1. ablative singular of mōns

From French monter, from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).

monte

1. to climb
2. to rise

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin montem.

monte m (plural montes)

1. hill

• Galician: monte
• Portuguese: monte (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "monte"

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

monte m (plural montes)

1. hill
   • 1294 "Cuatro documentos asturianos del siglo xiii" by María Josefa Sanz Fuentes):

     con montes, fontes, prados, pascos, felgueras, molneras,

     with hills, fountains, fields, pastures, ferns, mills,

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈmõ.tɪ], [ˈmõ.tʲ]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: mon‧te

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese monte m, from Latin montem m. Compare Galician monte m.

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)

   Synonyms: amontoado, pilha, penca

   Eu conheco um monte de gente. ― I know a lot of people.

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 Evereste, Monte Aconcágua.

• montinho (diminutive), montículo (diminutive)
• montão (augmentative)
• amontoar
• monte de merda

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: monti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

monte

1. inflection of montar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “monte”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “monte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From French monter, from Middle French monter, from Old French monter, from Vulgar Latin *montāre, from Latin montem (“mountain”).

monte

1. to climb
2. to rise

• D'Offay, Danielle; Lionnet, Guy (1982), Diksyonner kreol-franse [Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Hamburg: Buske, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonte/ [ˈmõn̪.t̪e]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -onte
• Syllabification: mon‧te

Inherited from Latin montem.

monte m (plural montes)

1. mountain, mount
2. hill

   Synonyms: cerro, loma, collado

3. forest, wilderness

   Synonyms: bosque, floresta, selva, foresta

4. (Mexico) desert

   Synonyms: desierto, peladero

5. (Dominican Republic, Mexico, in the singular only) underbrush

   Synonym: maleza

6. (Dominican Republic, Mexico, in the singular only) weeds

   Synonym: mala hierba

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

monte

1. inflection of montar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “monte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025