mountain
Significado
- An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.
- Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
- A difficult task or challenge.
- Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
- (slang) A woman's large breast.
- The twenty-first Lenormand card.
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈmaʊn.tɪn/
Etimología
From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native Old English beorg and dūn, and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).
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