montania

== Interlingua == === Noun === montania (plural montanias) mountain == Latin == === Alternative forms === montāna, montānea === Etymology === From mont- (“mountain”) +‎ -ānia (collective noun-forming suffix), the latter from the neuter plural of Latin -āneus (adjective-forming suffix). Cf. the development of campānia (“countryside”) < campus (“field”). Sense 1 appears to be the original one, judging by the word's construction. Attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɔnˈtaː.ni.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [monˈtaː.ni.a] === Noun === montānia f (genitive montāniae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin) mountainous area mountain ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== montāniōsus ==== Descendants ==== ==== References ==== Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/monˈt-ani-a/ s.f.”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française. Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “*mŏntanea”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 415 "montania", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “montana, -nea, -nia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 704 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*montanea”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 100