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Montserrat

/montseˈrat/

proper noun/montseˈrat/

Montserrat (an island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean); Montserrat (a mountain range in Catalonia, Spain, near Barcelona, the site of a monastery); a female given name transferred from the place name or from Catalan, shortened from María (de) Montserrat, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as the patron of Catalonia

Borrowed from Catalan Montserrat, from mont (“hill”) + serrat (“jagged”).