montage

Meanings

Noun

• A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
• The art or process of doing this.

Verb

• To combine into, or depict as, a montage.

Origin

• Borrowed from French montage ("assembly, set-up"), from monter + -age (from Latin -āticum ("suffix forming a noun indicating a state of being resulting from an action")). Monter is derived from Vulgar Latin *montāre, the present active infinitive of *monto, from mōns, montem, from Proto-Indo-European *men- ("mountain").