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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Lucilius|origins=ine-pro *mon-ti-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [mɔnˈtaː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [monˈtaː.nus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''montānus''' (feminine montāna, neuter montānum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|mōns|-ānus|t1=mountain]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''Mōns'' is [[m|itc-pro|*monti-]], from [[ine-pro|*mon-ti-|t=protrusion, height]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Lucilius (c. 180–102 BC).^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant of the mountains, as Varro's mountain land and Virgil's mountain stream, and mountainous, as Livy's ''loca montana''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun it meant a mountain-dweller, as Caesar's mountaineers, and in the plural the inhabitants of the seven hills of Rome.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ Quintilian contrasts ''montanus'' and ''planus'' places.^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''Montanus'' was also a Roman name, borne by the poet Julius Montanus and the orator Votienus Montanus.^(OLD 2012) In medieval Latin a ''montanus'' was a hermit.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''mountain'' comes from Vulgar Latin *''montanea'' through Old French, and ''montane'' is a learned borrowing.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of mountain land.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of mountaineers.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1200 – English ''mountain'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Of the mountains, [[m|en|mountain]]-; mountainous.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Living in the mountains.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # A mountain-dweller, ''(plural)'' the people of the hills of Rome.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|hermit]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[montāna]]
+ * [[montaniculus]]
+ * [[montāniōsus]]
+ * [[trānsmontānus]]
+ * [[cismontānus]]
+ * [[montānia]]
+ * [[submontānus]]
+ * [[rēgiomontānus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[monticola]]
+ * [[mons]]
+ * [[en|mountain]]
+ * [[en|montane]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}