montania

Interlingua

Noun

montania (plural montanias)

  1. mountain

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From mont- (“mountain”) +‎ -ānia (collective noun-forming suffix), the latter from the neuter plural of Latin -āneus (adjective-forming suffix). Cf. the development of campānia (“countryside”) < campus (“field”). Sense 1 appears to be the original one, judging by the word's construction.

Attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary.

Noun

montānia f (genitive montāniae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. mountainous area
  2. mountain
    • 1035, Testamentum Guifredi Comitis Cerritanensis:
      Et ipsa montania relinquo filio meo Berengario...
      And I leave [ownership of] the mountain to my son Berengar...

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative montānia montāniae
Genitive montāniae montāniārum
Dative montāniae montāniīs
Accusative montāniam montāniās
Ablative montāniā montāniīs
Vocative montānia montāniae

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