Etymology

montuno

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Today it means: The counterpoint in Cuban salsa music. Full definition →

Spanish montuno
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  1. Spanish · borrowed frommontuno
  2. English todaymontuno

From Spanish montuno (literally “from the mountain”), referring to rural music.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.