a mountain, from the Lat. _mons_, and cognate with the Gadhelic _monadh_, and the Cym.-Cel. _mynydd_; _e.g._ Montalto (high mount); Montauban (the mount of Albanus); Montechiaro (clear mount); Monte-fosoli (brown mount); Montehermosa (beautiful mount), in Spain; Montenegro, Turc. _Karadagh_, Sclav. _Zerna-gora_ (black mount), in Turkey; Beaumont, Chaumont, Haumont (the beautiful, bald, and high mount); Montereale and Montreal (the royal hill); Montreal, in Canada, so named by Cartier in 1555; Monte-Rosa, anc. _Mons-sylva_ (woody hill); Monte-Video (the prospect mount); Montmartre, anc. _Mons-Martyrum_ (the hill of the martyrdom of St. Denis), but its earlier name was _Mons-Martis_ (the hill of Mars); Montmirail, Lat. _Mons-mirabilis_ (the wonderful mountain); Remiremont, Lat. _Romaries-mons_, founded by St. Romarie in 620; Monte-Cavallo, corrupt. from _Monte-Calvaria_ (the Mount of Calvary), so called from a number of chapels, in which were represented the successive scenes of our Lord’s passion. From _monticellus_, the diminutive of _mont_, have arisen such place-names as Moncel, Le Monchel, Monchelet, etc.; Mont d’Or (golden mount), in Auvergne; Montefrio (cold mount), in Spain; Montpellier, Lat. _Mons-puellarum_ (the hill of the young girls), so called from two villages belonging to the sisters of St. Fulcrum; Montserrat (the serrated hill); Clermont (bright hill); Mondragon and Montdragone (the dragon’s hill); Monfalcone (hawk hill); Mons, Ger. _Berghen_ (hill town), in Belgium; Piedmont (at the foot of the Alps); Floremont or Blumenberg (flowery hill), in Alsace; Montaign and Monthen, anc. _Mons-acutus_ (sharp or peaked hill); Montigny, Montignac (mountainous); Jeumont, anc. _Jovismons_ (the hill of Jove), in France; Mount Pilatus (the mount with the _cap_ of clouds, from _pileus_, Lat. a felt cap); Richmond, in Yorkshire, named from a castle in Brittany, from which the Earl of Richmond took his title, meaning the rich or fertile hill; Richmond, in Surrey, named by the Earl after his Yorkshire estate, formerly called _Shene_ from the splendour of the royal residence there, _seine_, A.S. (splendid); Righimont, in Switzerland, corrupt. from _Mons-regius_ (royal hill); Montacute (sharp hill), in Somerset; Tras-os-Montes (beyond the hills), in Portugal; Apremont, in France, for _Aspromonte_ (rough hill); Pyrmont, corrupt. from _Mons-Petrus_ (St. Peter’s mount); Montferrato (the fortified hill). _Mont_ also signified a hill fort, like _berg_ and _dun_, as in Montalcino (the fort of Alcinous), in Italy; Montgomery, in Wales, (the fortress of Roger de Montgomerie, who erected a castle there in 1093)--its earlier name was _Tre-Faldwyn_ (the dwelling of Baldwin, a Norman knight); Charlemont, in France, named after Charles V.; Henrichemont, after Henri-Quatre. In Wales: the town of Mold, abbreviated from _Mons-altus_ (high fort)--the Normans built a castle there; Mynydd-du (black hill); Mynydd-mawr (great hill); Mynydd-moel (bald hill).