montanus

From mōns (“mountain”) + -ānus (“of, pertaining to”, suffix forming an adjective).

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

montānus (feminine montāna, neuter montānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to a mountain, especially—
   1. situated among, or built in, the mountains
   2. dwelling in the mountains, mountaineer
   3. mountainous

First/second-declension adjective.

• montania (see there for further descendants)
• montāniōsus (“mountainous”, adjective)
• submontānus (“under the mountain”, adjective)
• trānsmontānus (“beyond the mountains”, adjective)
• ultramontānus (“ultramontane”, adjective)

• monticola (“mountain inhabitant”, noun)

• “montanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “montanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• montanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “montanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “montanus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray