mountain: [13] Latin mōns ‘mountain’ could well go back ultimately to a variant of the base *min- ‘jut’ which produced English eminent, imminent, menace, and prominent. English acquired it originally direct from Latin as a noun, mount [OE], which is now used only in the names of mountains. The verb mount followed in the 14th century, via Old French munter.
Latin mōns had a derived adjective montānus ‘mountainous’, which was adapted in Vulgar Latin to the noun *montānea ‘mountainous area’. This made its way into Old French as montaigne, by which time it meant simply ‘mountain’ – whence English mountain. Amount [13] comes ultimately from the Latin phrase ad montem ‘to the mountain’, hence ‘upwards’; and paramount [16] in turn derives from an Old French phrase par amont ‘by above’, hence ‘superior’. => amount, eminent, imminent, menace, mount, paramount, prominent, tantamount
mountain (n.)
c. 1200, from Old French montaigne (Modern French montagne), from Vulgar Latin *montanea "mountain, mountain region," noun use of fem. of *montaneus "of a mountain, mountainous," from Latin montanus "mountainous, of mountains," from mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)).
Until 18c., applied to a fairly low elevation if it was prominent (such as Sussex Downs, the hills around Paris). As an adjective from late 14c. Mountain dew "raw and inferior whiskey" first recorded 1839; earlier a type of Scotch whiskey (1816); Jamieson's 1825 "Supplement" to his Scottish dictionary defines it specifically as "A cant term for Highland whisky that has paid no duty." Mountain-climber recorded from 1839; mountain-climbing from 1836.
雙語例句
1. I'll run over to Short Mountain and check on Mrs Adams.
我會開車去肖特山看看亞當斯夫人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The truck sways wildly, careening down narrow mountain roads.
卡車瘋狂地左搖右晃，從狹窄的山路上急沖而下。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Searchers have found three mountain climbers missing since Saturday.
搜救人員已經找到了周六失蹤的3名登山者。
來自柯林斯例句
4. We climbed up a winding track towards a mountain refuge.
我們沿著一條蜿蜒的小道爬向山上的一處避難所。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Typically, the Norwegians were on the mountain two hours before anyone else.