μόνος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μοῦνος (moûnos) — Epic, Ionic
• μῶνος (mônos) — Doric

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

Adjective

μόνος • (mónos) m (feminine μόνη, neuter μόνον); first/second declension (Attic, Koine, Byzantine)

1. alone, forsaken, solitary
2. only
3. unique

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• → English: mono-
• Greek: μόνος (mónos)
• Mariupol Greek: мо́нос (mónos), мо́ну (mónu)

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

μόνος • (mónos) m (feminine μόνη, neuter μόνο)

1. solitary, alone
2. unmarried
3. solo, unaccompanied
4. unique, singular
5. (used with an article) only

   Ο Κώστας ήταν ο μόνος που έτρεξε να βοηθήσει.

   O Kóstas ítan o mónos pou étrexe na voïthísei.

   Kostas was the only one to run for help.

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• μόνος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.