monile

From Latin.

monile m (plural monili)

1. necklace
2. jewel

• Milone, limone, meloni

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mony- (“crest, mane”). Compare Proto-Germanic *manją (“necklace”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /moˈniː.lis/, [mɔˈniːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈni.lis/, [moˈniːlis]

monīle n (genitive monīlis); third declension

1. necklace, collar
2. (chiefly in the plural) jewel(s)

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• “monile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “monile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• monile in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “monile”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “monile”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin