Meaning of mons | Babel Free

Definitions

1. mountain, mount
   declension-3
2. hill
   declension-3
3. towering mass, heap, great quantity
   declension-3, metonymically
4. mountain rock, rock (in general) (poetically)
   declension-3, metonymically
5. mountain beasts, wild beasts (Late Latin, poetically)
   declension-3, metonymically
6. (of that which is obtained from the mountains) marble, marble column
   declension-3, metonymically

Equivalents

Examples

“Aquītānia ā Garumnā flūmine ad Pȳrēnaeōs mōntēs et eam partem Ōceanī quae est ad Hispāniam pertinet...”

Aquitania extends from the Garonne river to the Pyrenaean mountains and that part of the ocean which reaches Iberia...

“Sed pater omnipotēns spēluncīs abdidit ātrīs, hoc metuēns, mōlemque et montīs īnsuper altōs imposuit, …. But the all-powerful Father [Jupiter] had hidden [the winds] in dark caverns, [because he was] fearing this [destruction], and above [them] he placed massive high mountains, …. (The words “molemque et montis” exemplify alliteration and hendiadys.)”

“et eunt hominēs mīrārī alta montium et ingentēs flūctūs maris et lātissimōs lāpsūs flūminum et ōceanī ambitum et gȳrōs sīderum, et relinquunt sē ipsōs, …”

And men go to marvel at the heights of mountains and the huge waves of the sea and the widest courses of rivers and the flow of the ocean and the circuits of the stars, and they forsake themselves, […].

“montibus hīs ōlim tōtus prōmittitur orbis”

To these hills, one day, the whole world is promised.

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