Etymology

Montrose

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Today it means: A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic moine
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed frommoine“moor”
  2. English todayMontrose

From Scottish Gaelic moine (“moor”) + rois (“peninsula”).

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