c. 1300, "to mount a horse;" mid-14c., "to rise up, ascend; fly," from Old French monter "to go up, ascend, climb, mount," from Vulgar Latin *montare, from Latin mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)). Meaning "to set or place in position" first recorded 1530s. Sense of "to get up on for purposes of copulation" is from 1590s. Related: Mounted; mounting.
mount (n.2)
"that on which something is mounted," 1739, from mount (v.). The colloquial meaning "a horse for riding" is first recorded 1856.
mount (n.1)
"hill, mountain," mid-13c., from Anglo-French mount, Old French mont "mountain;" also perhaps partly from Old English munt "mountain;" both the Old English and the French words from Latin montem (nominative mons) "mountain," from PIE root *men- "to stand out, project" (cognates: Latin eminere "to stand out;" Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Latin monile "necklace;" Old Irish muin "neck," Welsh mwnwgl "neck," mwng "mane;" Welsh mynydd "mountain").
例文
1. America has enough firepower in the area to mount sustained air strikes.
米国はこの地域で十分な火力を持って継続的な空中打撃を発動している。
2. Mount Unzen has been spewing out volcanic ash，gas，and rock today.
雲仙山は今日、火山灰、ガス、火山岩を外に噴き出している。
3. Mount Marcy is the highest mountain the Adirondacks.
マサイ山はアデランダク山脈の中で最も高い山である。
4.the first ascent of Mount Everst
エベレスト初登頂
5.The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind.