Editing Montevideo (section)

== Etymology ==
There are several explanations for the word ''Montevideo''. All agree that "Monte" refers to the [[Fortaleza del Cerro|Cerro de Montevideo]], the hill situated across the [[Bay of Montevideo]], but there is disagreement about the etymological origin of the "video" part.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nelson Ormazábal |title=Día del Patrimonio |url=http://www.montevideanos.com/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050428222155/http://www.montevideanos.com/index.html |archive-date=28 April 2005 |access-date=17 November 2010 |publisher=montevideanos.com |language=es |quote=Pocas villas con deseos de ser ciudad, tuvieron tantos prenombres hasta llegar al definitivo de Montevideo. Pináculo de la Tentación, Monte de la Detención, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Monte de San Pedro, Santo Vidio, Monte Seredo, Monte Vidi, Monte veo, Montem Video, Monte Vide Eu, Monte Ovidio, Monte VI D. E-O... Tales fueron, entre el viaje de Amerigo Vespucci (1501) y la fundación por Bruno Mauricio de Zabala (1726), las diversas denominaciones que la elevación al oeste de la bahía recibió.}}</ref>

[[File:Cerro de Montevideo desde la ciudad. Año 1865.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Cerro de Montevideo as seen from the city, in 1865.]]

* '''Monte vide eu''' ("I saw a mount") is the most widespread belief<ref name=OriMon /><ref name="Paisaje urbano">{{Cite web |last=Centro Radioaficionados Montevideo |title=Paisaje urbano |url=http://www.qsl.net/cram/pages/mvd.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505123022/http://www.qsl.net/cram/pages/mvd.htm |archive-date=5 May 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=Qsl.net |language=es}}</ref> but is rejected by the majority of experts, who consider it unlikely because it involves a mix of dialects. The name would come from a [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] expression which means "I saw a mount", wrongly pronounced by an anonymous sailor belonging to the expedition of [[Ferdinand Magellan|Fernando de Magallanes]] on catching sight of the Cerro de Montevideo.
* '''Montem vídeo''' ("I see a hill"): This version, a variant of the previous one, suggests that the name comes directly from Latin, stemming from the spontaneous expression of a learned member of Magellan's expedition, who, upon spotting the Cerro de Montevideo, exclaimed: ''Montem vídeo'' ("I see a hill"). The rest of the crew, who did not speak Latin, mistakenly registered this as the name of the hill they had just sighted, ''Monte Vídeo''. This theory is supported by numerous maps and documents from the colonial period that refer to the Cerro de Montevideo with the name ''Monte Vídeo.''<ref>Travieso, Carlos (1923). «IV - Verdadero origen del nombre de Montevideo». ''"¡Montem vídeo!" : origen del nombre de Montevideo''. IMPRENTA LATINA.</ref>
* '''Monte Vidi:''' This hypothesis comes from the "Diario de Navegación" (Navigational Calendar) of boatswain Francisco de Albo, member of the expedition of [[Ferdinand Magellan|Fernando de Magallanes]],<ref name="OriMon">{{Cite web |last=Nelson Ormazábal |title=El origen de la palabra "Montevideo" |trans-title=The origin of the word "Montevideo" |url=http://www.montevideanos.com/origen.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213133926/http://www.montevideanos.com/origen.htm |archive-date=13 December 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=montevideanos.com |language=es}}</ref> who wrote, "Tuesday of the said [month of January 1520] we were on the straits of Cape Santa María [now [[Punta del Este]]], from where the coast runs east to west, and the terrain is sandy, and at the right of the cape there is a mountain like a hat to which we gave the name "Montevidi"."<ref name="de Navarrete 1825 p. 290">{{cite book |last=de Navarrete |first=M.F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iplTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA290 |title=Colección de los viages y descubrimientos que hicieron por mar los españoles desde fines del siglo XV: con varios documentos inéditos concernientes á la historia de la marina castellana y de los establecimientos españoles en Indias |publisher=Imprenta real |year=1825 |page=290 |language=es |trans-title=Collection of the voyages and discoveries made by the Spanish by sea since the late 15th century: with several unpublished documents concerning the history of the Castilian navy and the Spanish establishments in the Indies |access-date=6 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005141459/https://books.google.com/books?id=iplTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA290#v=onepage&q&f=false |archive-date=5 October 2023 |url-status=live |issue=v. 4}}</ref> This is the oldest Spanish document that mentions the promontory with a name similar to the one that designates the city, but it does not contain any mention of the alleged cry "Monte vide eu."
* '''Monte-VI-D-E-O''' (''Monte '''VI''' '''D'''e '''E'''ste a '''O'''este'', "Sixth mount from east to west"): According to Rolando Laguarda Trías, professor of history, the Spaniards annotated the geographic location on a map or [[Portolan chart]], so that the mount/hill is the VI (6th) mount observable on the coast, navigating Río de la Plata from east to west.<ref name="tacuycom">{{Cite web |last=Javier Meneses Silva |title=Reseña histórica y datos varios |trans-title=Historical overview and various data |url=http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302094006/http://www.tacuy.com.uy/Servicios/Montevideo/index.htm |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=tacuy.com.uy |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ariel Collazo |title=El origen del nombre Montevideo |trans-title=The origin of the name Montevideo|date=7 May 2006 |url=http://www.larepublica.com.uy/editorial/210067-el-origen-del-nombre-montevideo |access-date=20 November 2010 |newspaper=La República |publisher=La Republica 21 |location=Montevideo |language=es |archive-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430224801/http://www.larepublica.com.uy/editorial/210067-el-origen-del-nombre-montevideo |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="SextMon">{{Cite web |last=Laura Caorsi |title=El sexto monte |url=http://servicios.laverdad.es/nuestratierra/nt08042007/suscr/nec21.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429030704/http://servicios.laverdad.es/nuestratierra/nt08042007/suscr/nec21.htm |archive-date=29 April 2011 |access-date=17 November 2009 |website=laverdad.es |language=es}}</ref> With the passing of time, these words were unified to "Montevideo". No conclusive evidence has been found to confirm this academic hypothesis, nor can it be asserted with certainty which the other five mounts observable before the Cerro were.
* '''Monte Ovídio''' (''Monte Santo Ovídio''), a less widespread hypothesis of a religious origin,<ref name=OriMon /> stems from an interpolation in the aforementioned ''Diario de Navegación'' of Fernando de Albo, where it is asserted "corruptly now called Santo Vidio" when they refer to the hat-like mount which they named Monte Vidi (that is, the Cerro de Montevideo). [[Auditus of Braga]] (Spanish: ''Ovídio'') was the third bishop of the Roman city of [[Braga]] (now in Portugal) in 95 CE, where he was always revered; a monument to him was erected there in 1505. Given the relationship that the Portuguese had with the discovery and foundation of Montevideo, and despite the fact that this hypothesis, like the previous ones, lacks conclusive documentation, there have been those who linked the name of Santo Ovídio or Vídio (appearing on some maps of the time) with the subsequent derivation of the name "Montevideo" given to the region since the early years of the 16th century.

When the [[United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves|Portuguese]] invaded the [[Banda Oriental]] and annexed it as the province of [[Cisplatina]] until 1831, they called the city {{lang|pt|Montevidéu}}, and pronounced as  {{IPA|pt-PT|mõtɨviˈðew|lang}}.