Monte
来自Big Physics
early 19th century: Spanish, literally ‘mountain’, also ‘heap of cards left after dealing’.
wiktionary
Borrowed from Spanish monte(“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.
etymonline
monte (n.)
1824, the name of a favorite Spanish and Spanish-American card game played with a deck of 40 cards, from Spanish monte "mountain," from Latin montem (nominative mons) "mountain" (from PIE root *men- (2) "to project"). So called from the heap of cards left after dealing. Picked up by the Americans in Texas and in the Mexican War, it was a favorite in California during the gold rush years. The three-card confidence-game form (first attested 1877) is of Mexican origin.
