menoides
Latin
editAlternative forms
edit- mīnoīdēs (codical variant)
Etymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek μηνοειδής (mēnoeidḗs).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meː.noˈiː.deːs/, [meːnoˈiːd̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.noˈi.des/, [menoˈiːd̪es]
Adjective
editmēnoīdēs (neuter mēnoīdes or mēnoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentoid
- AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):
- Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):
Usage notes
edit- This word is found in some editions of Julius Firmicus Maternus's Matheseos libri, where it is taken to mean "crescent-shaped" based on the presumed Greek etymon; however, other editions have monoīdēs (which is taken to mean "having a single form, uniform" based on its presumed etymon), and it is not clear which editions are correct and which have miswritten the word. Both words are also attested elsewhere.
Declension
editThird-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | mēnoīdēs | mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs |
mēnoīdēs | mēnoīdia | |
Genitive | mēnoīdis | mēnoīdium | |||
Dative | mēnoīdī | mēnoīdibus | |||
Accusative | mēnoīdem | mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs |
mēnoīdēs | mēnoīdia | |
Ablative | mēnoīdī | mēnoīdibus | |||
Vocative | mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs |
mēnoīdēs | mēnoīdia |