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Montenegro

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetan Montenegro (from monte + negro, literally black mountain), a calque of Serbo-Croatian Cȓnā Gòra, referring to Mt Lovćen.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɒn.tɪˈnɛɡ.ɹəʊ/, /mɒn.tɪˈneɪ.ɡɹəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌmɑn.təˈneɪ.ɡɹoʊ/, /ˌmɑn.tɪˈni.ɡɹoʊ/
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

Montenegro (plural Montenegros)

  1. A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Podgorica. Part of Yugoslavia until 2003, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.
    • 2025 January 1, Reuters, “Suspect in Montenegro shooting dies from self-inflicted injuries after killing at least 12 people”, in CNN:
      A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.

Descendants

  • Japanese: モンテネグロ (Monteneguro)

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Proper noun

Montenegro (uncountable)

  1. A barangay of Balatan, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
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Afrikaans

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Proper noun

Montenegro

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe; capital and largest city: Podgoritsa)

Asturian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /monteˈneɡɾo/ [mõn̪.t̪eˈne.ɣ̞ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -eɡɾo
  • Syllabification: Mon‧te‧ne‧gro

Proper noun

Montenegro m

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Basque

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /monteneɡro/ [mõn̪.t̪e.ne.ɣ̞ro]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɡro, -o
  • Hyphenation: Mon‧te‧ne‧gro

Proper noun

Montenegro inan

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

More information indefinite, absolutive ...

Derived terms

  • montenegroar
  • montenegroera

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Montenegro m

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Cornish

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Baner Montenegro.
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Montenegro yn Europa.

Etymology

From English Montenegro, from Venetan Montenegro, literally "black mountain".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔntɛˈnɛɡɹɔ/

Proper noun

Montenegro

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

  • montenegrek (Montenegrin, adjective)

Mutation

More information unmutated, soft ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Crimean Tatar

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Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Mon‧te‧neg‧ro

Proper noun

Montenegro

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

References

Danish

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Proper noun

Montenegro

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

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Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Montenegro, it in turn being a calque of Serbo-Croatian Cȓnā Gòra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌmɔn.təˈneː.ɣroː/, /-ɡroː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: Mon‧te‧ne‧gro

Proper noun

Montenegro n (adjective Montenegrijns, demonym Montenegrijn m or Montenegrijnse f)

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

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Esperanto

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /monteˈneɡro/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɡro
  • Hyphenation: Mon‧te‧ne‧gro

Proper noun

Montenegro (accusative Montenegron)

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Meronyms

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Bosnio kaj Hercegovino Serbio
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Adriatiko Albanio

Estonian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /monteˈneɡ̊ro/, [monteˈneɡ̊ro]

Proper noun

Montenegro (genitive Montenegro, partitive Montenegrot)

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation), singular ...

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Faroese

Etymology

From Venetan Montenegro (black mountain), a calque of Serbo-Croatian Cȓnā Gòra.

Proper noun

Montenegro n

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

See also

  • Svartafjall

Finnish

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Etymology

From Venetan Montenegro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmont(ː)eneɡro/, [ˈmo̞n̪t̪(ː)e̞ˌne̞ɡro̞]
  • Rhymes: -eɡro
  • Syllabification(key): Mon‧te‧neg‧ro
  • Hyphenation(key): Mon‧te‧neg‧ro

Proper noun

Montenegro

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

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Galician

Etymology 1

From monte + negro, "Black Mountain".

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Montenegro m

  1. an ancient territory in northern Galicia
  2. a surname

Etymology 2

From Venetan Montenegro.

Proper noun

Montenegro m

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)
Derived terms

References

German

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Montenegro n (proper noun, genitive Montenegros or (optionally with an article) Montenegro)

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)
    Synonym: (archaic; before World War I) Schwarzenberg

Derived terms

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Ido

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Montenegro

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

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Italian

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Welsh

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