🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

montar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mõˈtaɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Assemble/əˈzɛm.bəl/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2150 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Vou montar a estante nova hoje."

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2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To gather together in one place for a common purpose.

    "Citizens began to assemble in the main square to protest the new legislation."
  2. 2

    To fit together the separate component parts of something.

    "It took me two hours to assemble the new bookshelf."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French verb 'assembler', which traces back to the Late Latin 'assimulare', meaning to bring together or unite. It entered the English language in the late Middle English period via Anglo-Norman administrative and legal terminology.

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