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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μόνος (mónos) + -ᾰ́ς (-ás).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo.nás/ → /moˈnas/ → /moˈnas/
Adjective
μονᾰ́ς • (monás)
- alone, solitary, isolated
- special feminine form of μόνος (mónos)
Noun
μονᾰ́ς • (monás) f (genitive μονᾰ́δος); third declension
- unit
Inflection
- The feminine adjective and the noun are declined the same.
Descendants
References
- “μονάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μονάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μονάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μονάς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.