μόνος
See also: μονός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *mónwos, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”). See also Armenian մանր (manr, “slender, small”), Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “sparse, rare”), as well as several Germanic contexts including Middle Low German mone, möne (West Frisian meun, Dutch meun), Old High German muniwa, munuwa, munewa (German Münne (“minnow”)).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.nos/
Adjective
μόνος • (mónos) m (feminine μόνη, neuter μόνον); first/second declension (Attic, Koine, Byzantine)
Declension
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | μόνος mónos |
μόνη mónē |
μόνον mónon |
μόνω mónō |
μόνᾱ mónā |
μόνω mónō |
μόνοι mónoi |
μόναι mónai |
μόνᾰ móna | |||||
Genitive | μόνου mónou |
μόνης mónēs |
μόνου mónou |
μόνοιν mónoin |
μόναιν mónain |
μόνοιν mónoin |
μόνων mónōn |
μόνων mónōn |
μόνων mónōn | |||||
Dative | μόνῳ mónōi |
μόνῃ mónēi |
μόνῳ mónōi |
μόνοιν mónoin |
μόναιν mónain |
μόνοιν mónoin |
μόνοις mónois |
μόναις mónais |
μόνοις mónois | |||||
Accusative | μόνον mónon |
μόνην mónēn |
μόνον mónon |
μόνω mónō |
μόνᾱ mónā |
μόνω mónō |
μόνους mónous |
μόνᾱς mónās |
μόνᾰ móna | |||||
Vocative | μόνε móne |
μόνη mónē |
μόνον mónon |
μόνω mónō |
μόνᾱ mónā |
μόνω mónō |
μόνοι mónoi |
μόναι mónai |
μόνᾰ móna | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
μόνως mónōs |
μονώτερος monṓteros |
μονώτᾰτος monṓtatos | ||||||||||||
Notes: |
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Derived terms
References
- “μόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “μόνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3441 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- alone idem, page 25.
- desolate idem, page 216.
- isolated idem, page 461.
- lonely idem, page 498.
- only idem, page 574.
- single idem, page 777.
- single-handed idem, page 779.
- singly idem, page 779.
- sole idem, page 792.
- solitary idem, page 792.
- unaided idem, page 906.
- unassisted idem, page 907.
- unattenend idem, page 907.
- unsupported idem, page 933.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”).
Compare Mariupol Greek мо́нос (mónos), мо́ну (mónu).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmonos/
- Hyphenation: μό‧νος
Adjective
Declension
Declension of μόνος
number case \ gender |
singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | μόνος • | μόνη • | μόνο • | μόνοι • | μόνες • | μόνα • |
genitive | μόνου • | μόνης • | μόνου • | μόνων • | μόνων • | μόνων • |
accusative | μόνο • | μόνη • | μόνο • | μόνους • | μόνες • | μόνα • |
vocative | μόνε • | μόνη • | μόνο • | μόνοι • | μόνες • | μόνα • |
Related terms
Further reading
- μόνος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
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