Word.ws English Dictionary

montante

montante noun: a type of longsword used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Noun

montante (plural montantes)

  1. A type of longsword used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
    • "Choose a zweihander if you prefer." He seemed about to reach for one of the German blades, then let his hand fall. "The montante has a certain flair. I think the old Iberian masters would approve." He met her eye, the silence growing ...2020, Kat Ross, Balthazar's Bane, Kat Ross, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Montante

Montante (plural Montantes)

  1. A surname.

Forms of montante

Noun
pluralmontantes
Proper noun
pluralMontantes

Origin of montante

Borrowed from Spanish montante or a cognate in another language.

Questions about montante

What does montante mean?
Montante means a type of longsword used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
What part of speech is montante?
Montante can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of montante?
The plural of montante is montantes.

Words near montante in the dictionary

  1. Montanizes
  2. Montanizing
  3. Montano
  4. montanous
  5. montant
  6. montante
  7. montantes
  8. montants
  9. Montanye
  10. Montanyes
  11. Montara

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: montante (page history and authors); Montante (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “montante.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/montante. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.