montaña

• montanha (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese montanna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem. Compare Portuguese montanha, Spanish montaña.

• IPA^(key): [monˈtaɲɐ]

montaña f (plural montañas)

1. highlands
   • 1853, J. M. Pintos, A Gaita Gallega, page 58:

     Alá de donde vimos na montaña a miseria é tan grande que non pode a xente se queixar

     There, where we came from, in the highlands, misery is so large that people can't even complain

2. mountain

• Montaña
• Montañó

• monte

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “montaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “montaña”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “montanna”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “montaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “montaña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “montaña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “montaña”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish montanna, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem.

• IPA^(key): /monˈtaɲa/ [mõn̪ˈt̪a.ɲa]

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• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: mon‧ta‧ña

montaña f (plural montañas)

1. mountain

   Synonym: monte

2. a lot; a bunch

   Synonyms: manojo, puñado; see also Thesaurus:montón

• → English: Montana

• “montaña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024