monachus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, single, solitary), from μόνος (mónos, alone).

Pronunciation

Noun

monachus m (genitive monachī); second declension (Late Latin)

  1. monk

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: monaco
      • Sardinian: monacu (modern form)
    • Neapolitan: monaco
    • Sicilian: mònacu, mònicu, mònucu
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Borrowings:
    • Albanian: murg
    • Basque: monako
    • Old Irish: manach (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Brythonic: *manax (see there for further descendants)
    • Swahili: mmonaki

Reflexes of the variant monicus:

References

Further reading

  • monachus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • monachus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.