Montevideo

English

Etymology

There is general agreement that the first two syllables come from Spanish or Portuguese monte (“hill”), in reference to the prominent hill to the west of the city. Beyond that, explanations differ. Two of the most popular stories are that the name comes from a reading of the abbreviated MONTE-VI-D-E-O ("sixth hill from east to west"), or that it comes from a Portuguese sailor's shout of "Monte vide eu".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɒntɪvɪˈdeɪəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): (Minnesota city) /ˌmɒntɪˈvɪdiəʊ/

Proper noun

Montevideo

2. The capital city of Uruguay.
3. A city, the county seat of Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States.

Translations

capital of Uruguay

• Arabic: مُونْتِيفِيدِيُو m (muntifīdiyū)
• Bulgarian: Монтевиде́о (Montevidéo)
• Catalan: Montevideo (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒙得維的亞 / 蒙得维的亚 (zh) (Mēngdéwéidíyà)

• Czech: Montevideo (cs) n
• Danish: Montevideo
• Esperanto: Montevideo (eo)
• Finnish: Montevideo (fi)
• French: Montevideo (fr) m
• German: Montevideo (de) n
• Greek: Μοντεβιδέο (Montevidéo)
• Hebrew: מונטווידאו f, מוֹנְטֶבִידֶאוֹ (montevide'o)
• Italian: Montevideo (it)
• Japanese: モンテヴィデオ (ja) (Montevideo), モンテビデオ (ja) (Montebideo)
• Korean: 몬테비데오 (Montebide'o)
• Latin: Mons Videi
• Maltese: Montevideo
• Persian: مونتویدئو (montevide'o)
• Portuguese: Montevidéu (pt) (Brazil), Montevideu (Portugal)
• Russian: Монтевиде́о (ru) m (Montɛvidɛ́o)
• Spanish: Montevideo (es)
• Ukrainian: Монтевіде́о n (Montevidéo)
• Vietnamese: Môn-tê-vi-đê-ô

Catalan

Proper noun

Montevideo m

1. Montevideo (the capital city of Uruguay)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Montevideo

1. Montevideo (the capital city of Uruguay)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmontɛvɪdɛo]

Proper noun

Montevideo n (relational adjective montevidejský)

1. Montevideo (the capital city of Uruguay)

Declension

Declension of Montevideo (sg-only semisoft neuter)

	singular
nominative	Montevideo
genitive	Montevidea
dative	Montevideu
accusative	Montevideo
vocative	Montevideo
locative	Montevideu
instrumental	Montevideem

Further reading

• “Montevideo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Montevideo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Montevideo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Japanese

Romanization

Montevideo

1. Rōmaji transcription of モンテヴィデオ

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Montevideo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔn.tɛ.viˈdɛ.ɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɔ
• Syllabification: Mon‧te‧vi‧de‧o

Proper noun

Montevideo n (indeclinable)

1. Montevideo (the capital city of Uruguay)

Further reading

• Montevideo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔnceviɟeɔ]

Proper noun

Montevideo n (genitive singular Montevidea)

1. Montevideo (the capital of Uruguay)

References

• “Montevideo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /montebiˈdeo/ [mõn̪.t̪e.β̞iˈð̞e.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: Mon‧te‧vi‧de‧o

Proper noun

Montevideo ?

1. Montevideo (the capital city of Uruguay)
2. Montevideo (a department of Uruguay)

Derived terms

• montevideano