Mons Ferratus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown

Proper noun

Mōns Ferrātus m sg (genitive Montis Ferrātī); third declension

(Medieval Latin) Montferrat (historical region of Piedmont, Italy) [from 10^th century]
- 909 June, Berengar I of Italy, [untitled bill]; republished as chapter LXIX (chapter 69), in Luigi Schiaparelli, editor, I diplomi di Berengario I‎^[1], Rome: Forzani & c., 1903, page 187:
  […] in Monteferrato in loco qui dicitur Rivassi mansos quinque cum insula infra Padum […]
  […] in Montferrat, in a place called Rivasso, five manors, with an island below the Po […]
- 1033 February 23, Conradi I imperatoris privilegium confirmatorium omnium iurium monasterii Ticinensis sancti Petri, quod appellatur in Cœlo Aureo [Bill of Emperor Conrad I in confirmation of all rights of the monastery of st. Peter in Ticino, called "in the Golden Sky"]; republished in Ludovico Antonio Muratori, editor, Antiquitates Italicae medii aevi [Italic antiques of the Middle Ages], volume 1, Milan: Typographia societatis Palatinae, 1738, pages 595–596:
  […] & omnia, que in Monte Farrato, & que in Comitatu Vercellenſi & Yporegienſi, & que in Novarienſi ad eundem locum pertinent […]
  [ […] et omnia, quae in Monte Farrato, et quae in Comitatu Vercellensi et Iporegiensi, et quae in Novariensi ad eundem locum pertinent […] ]
  […] and those which, in Montferrat, and in the county of Vercelli and Ivrea, and in [the land of] Novara, relate to that same place […]
- c. 1288, Salimbene di Adam, “Quod Manuel imperator filio marchionis Montis-ferrati filiam dedit uxorem et regem Thessalonie fecit. [How Emperor Manuel married his daughter to marquis William of Montferrat's son, and made him king of Thessalonica,]” (chapter 9), in Cronica [Chronicle]; republished as Ferdinando Bernini, editor, volume 1, Bari: Gius[eppe] Laterza & sons, 1942, page 4:
  Circa tempora ista Constantinopolitanus imperator marchioni Guilielmo de Monte-ferrato mandavit, ut unum de filiis suis Constantinopolim mitteret, cui filiam in matrimonio copularet.
  Around these times, the Emperor of Constantinople ordered William, marquis of Montferrat, to send one of his sons to Constantinople, to join his daughter in marriage.
- 1731, Franciscus Orlendius, “Pedemontium, eiusque partes praecipuae [Piedmont, and its distinguished areas]” (chapter 1), Liber secundus [Second book], in Orbis sacer et profanus illustratus [Sacred and profane world illustrated], volume 2, Florence, section XX (section 20), page 91:
  Tandem hoc ſeculo xviii. ineunte, univerſus Mons Ferratus Duci Sabaudiæ attributus eﬅ; Urbes Montis Ferrati eæ ſunt.
  [Tandem hoc saeculo XVIII ineunte, universus Mons Ferratus Duci Sabaudiae attributus est; Urbes Montis Ferrati eae sunt.]
  Finally, at the beginning of this 18^th century, all of Montferrat was assigned to the ruler of Savoy. These are the towns of Montferrat: […]

Declension

Third-declension noun with a second-declension adjective, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Mōns Ferrātus
genitive	Montis Ferrātī
dative	Montī Ferrātō
accusative	Montem Ferrātum
ablative	Monte Ferrātō
vocative	Mōns Ferrāte