Pyrenaei montes

== Latin == === Etymology === Partial calque of Ancient Greek Πῡρηναῖᾰ ὄρη (Pūrēnaîă órē, literally “Pyrenean mountains”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pyː.reːˈnae̯.iː ˈmɔn.teːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pi.reˈnɛː.i ˈmɔn.tes] === Proper noun === Pȳrēnaeī montēs m pl (genitive Pȳrēnaeōrum montium); third declension Pyrenees Synonyms: Pȳrēnaeus mōns m sg, Pȳrēnaeus m sg ==== Declension ==== Second-declension adjective with a third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only. ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: mons Pyrenees, mons Pirenees, montz Pyrenees, monts PyreneesFrench: monts Pyrénées → Middle French: montaignes Pyrenees, montagnes Pyrenees (partial calque)French: montagnes Pyrénées (through ellipsis) Aragonese: Pireneus Catalan: Pirineus Italian: Pirenei Middle French: Pyrenees, PyrenæesFrench: Pyrénées→ Ottoman Turkish: پیرنه (Pirene)→ Ottoman Turkish: پیرنه‌لر (Pireneler)Turkish: Pireneler→ Persian: پیرنه (pirene) Occitan: Pirenèus Portuguese: Pirenéus Romanian: Pirinei Spanish: Pirineos → Basque: Pirinioak → Bulgarian: Пирене́и (Pirenéi) → Czech: Pireneje → Danish: Pyrenæerne → Dutch: Pyreneeën → English: Pyrenees → Finnish: Pyreneet → German: Pyrenäen → Hungarian: Pireneusok → Polish: Pireneje → Russian: Пирене́и (Pirenéi)→ Azerbaijani: Pireney→ Bashkir: Пиреней (Pireney)→ Chuvash: Пиреней (Pirenej)→ Kazakh: Пиреней (Pirenei)→ Kyrgyz: Пиреней (Pireney)→ Tajik: Пиреней (Pireney)→ Tatar: Пиреней (Pireney)→ Turkmen: Pireneý→ Uzbek: Pireney → Swedish: Pyrenéerna → Ukrainian: Пірене́ї (Pirenéji) === Further reading === “Pyrene”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.