Montana

From Latin montāna

• the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”)
• the surname from Spanish Montaña topographic surname

• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑnˈtænə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Montana (countable and uncountable, plural Montanas)

1. A placename.
   1. A town and province in northwestern Bulgaria.
   2. A former municipality of Valais canton, Switzerland.
   3. A locality in northern Tasmania, Australia.
   4. A place in the United States.
      2. A state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Helena. Largest city: Billings.
         • 1864 April 1 [1864 March 30], Benjamin Wade, quotee, “TERRITORY OF MONTANA.”, in Congressional Globe, number 85, John C. Rives, page 1345, column 3:

           Mr. WADE. I move to take up House bill No. 15 to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Montana.

         • 2016, Claire Krulikowski, Moonlight on the Ganga:

           While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.

         • 2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, in CNN‎^[1]:

           First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness.

      3. A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory:
         1. A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
         2. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.
         3. An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas.
         4. An unincorporated community in Warren County, New Jersey.
         5. An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.
   5. A barangay of Baclayon, Bohol, Philippines.
2. A unisex given name transferred from the place name, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.
   • 2002, Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12:

     'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. […]

3. A surname from Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain, Mount, or Hill.
   • 2020 September 27, Stella Chan, Paul Vercammen, Artemis Moshtaghian and Amir Vera, “NFL legend Joe Montana tussles with woman who attempted to kidnap his grandchild, police say”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a woman suspected of trying to kidnap their grandchild Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

• Montanha

Montana

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

Borrowed from English Montana.

Montana (genitive Montanas)

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

From English Montana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmontɑnɑ/, [ˈmo̞n̪t̪ɑ̝nɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ontɑnɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Mon‧ta‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): Mon‧ta‧na

Montana

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

Borrowed from English Montana.

• IPA^(key): /monˈta.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: Mon‧tà‧na

Montana m

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔnˈtaː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mon̪ˈt̪aː.na]

Montāna f sg (genitive Montānae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Borrowed from English Montana, from Spanish montaña (“mountain”), from Old Spanish montanna, from Medieval Latin montāna, from the feminine of Latin montānus, from mōns (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

• IPA^(key): /mɔnˈta.na/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Mon‧ta‧na

Montana f

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

• Montana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: Mon‧ta‧na

Montana m

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔntana]

Montana f (genitive singular Montany, declension pattern of žena)

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

• “Montana”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /monˈtana/ [mõn̪ˈt̪a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Mon‧ta‧na

Montana f

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)

• Montana on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from English Montana.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /monˈtana/ [mon̪ˈt̪aː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: Mon‧ta‧na

Montana (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜓᜈ᜔ᜆᜈ)

1. Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)