montaniosus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From montānia + -ōsus. Attested some time before the sixth century CE.[1]
Adjective
[edit]montāniōsus (feminine montāniōsa, neuter montāniōsum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: montagnoso
- Sicilian: muntagnusu
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: muntanyós
- Franco-Provençal: montagnox
- Old French: montaingneus
- French: montagneux
- → English: mountainous
- Occitan: montanhós
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: montañosu
- Galician: montañoso
- Portuguese: montanhoso
- Spanish: montañoso
References
[edit]- ^ Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/monˈt-ani-a/ s.f.”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
Further reading
[edit]- “montaniosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press