The name of which South American capital city is thought to mean "I see a hill"?
There are at least two explanations for the name Montevideo: The first states that it comes from the Portuguese "Monte vide eu" which means "I see a hill". The second is that the Spaniards recorded the location of a mountain in a map as "Monte VI De Este a Oeste" meaning "The sixth hill from east to west". The city's full original name is San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo...Good Luck Take Care
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28 Comments
James Vetzel
Too Easy: Monte= Mount= Hill, Video= Visual= See, = I see a hill.
stormejohn
Monte - video, looked pretty logical to me.
John McLardie
Second question with no valid reference. Quiz Club must do better.
Albeck1994
Gerald Woerner, not really but monte is obvious in any language, and so is video
Albeck1994
Luigi Leonardi, but pedantic but the result is the same
Albeck1994
Larry Jones, not really, we all you the word video and monte is obvious
Albeck1994
John Rego, even a non Spanish speaker could work that out
Raymond Villamor
What James said.
Bruce Cassamajor
ninakamwene, Nina if you miss this easy thing you picked with your eyes closed. You can score better if you try with open eye.
vasily tchaikovsky
williamrlaughlin, take it easy bill,let people play
drmargiem
Easy. Monte is hill and video is see. Spanish/Latin languages.
Gerald Woerner
It seems to me that "easy" comments often mean "Look at me, I am so smart".
Vonda Summers
Wrong guess
Carroll Price
Knowing some Spanish helps.
Ray Zagata
just came back from there. Beautiful place
Tom Seigo
Easy for one whose ethnicity is Spanish!
phvince
Larry Jones, In high school I took Latin & French so that helped, as you said.