What is the Latin word for mount, mountain?

The usual Latin words for “mount, mountain” are mōns, iugum, collum; also clīvus, montānus, montuōsus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“mount, mountain” in Latin

mōnsmountain, mount; hill; towering mass, heap, great quantity iuguma yoke (for oxen or cattle) or collar (for a horse); a yoke, pair, team of draft oxen; a pair of horses; a chariot; a ju collumThe neck or throat.; A symbol of servitude.; A symbol of life.clīvusslope, hill, rise montānussituated among, or built in, the mountains; dwelling in the mountains, mountaineer; mountainous montuōsusmountainous, full of mountains trānsmontānusthat is or lives beyond the mountains; transmontane

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

mount, mountain

mons: jugum (mountain height): collis, clivus (collis in respect of its height, clivus in respect of elevation): of or on a mountain, montanus: full of mountains, montuosus or montosus: on this side of a mountain, cis montanus: on the other side, transmontanus: at the foot of a mountain, in or sub radicibus montis: to be inclosed by high mountains, undique altissimis montibus contineri: the top or summit of a mountain, montis vertex, culmen, or cacumen; montis jugum (the top of a chain of mountains): a chain of mountains, montes continui (poetical); continua or perpetua montium juga; juga velut serie cohaerentia; perpetuo jugo juncti colles; saltus montibus circa perpetuis inter se juncti; jugum, quod montes perpetuo dorso inter se jungit (Vid: Herzog, ad Caes., B.G., 7, 44): valley in the mountains, montium intervallum: a mountain stream or torrent, torrens monte praecipiti devolutus (Liv., 28, 6); flumine montano rapidus torrens (a rushing torrent, Verg., Aen. 2, 305). Proverbially, to remove mountains, montes sua sede moliri (Liv.): the sermon on the Mountain, *oratio a Christo de monte habita.

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What is the Latin word for mount, mountain?: The usual Latin words for “mount, mountain” are mōns, iugum, collum; also clīvus, montānus, montuōsus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.