See also: Monachus

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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

  1. monk

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative monachus monachī
Genitive monachī monachōrum
Dative monachō monachīs
Accusative monachum monachōs
Ablative monachō monachīs
Vocative monache monachī

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • 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 edit

Further reading edit

  • 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