Etymology

Montana

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Today it means: A town and province in northwestern Bulgaria. Full definition →

Latin montāna ← Spanish montaña
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  1. Spanish · borrowed fromMontaña
  2. Spanish · borrowed frommontaña“mountain”
  3. Latin · derived frommontāna
  4. English todayMontana

From Latin montāna * the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”) * the surname from Spanish Montaña topographic surname

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.