monachus

See also: Monachus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.na.kʰus/, [ˈmɔnäkʰʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.na.kus/, [ˈmɔːnäkus]

Noun

monachus m (genitive monachī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin) monk (male member of a religious community)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: monaco
    • Sicilian: mònacu
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *monicus
    • Padanian:
      • Ligurian: mónego
      • Lombard: mòneg
      • Piedmontese: monio
      • Romansch: muntg, montg, muong
      • Venetian: munego, monego
    • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Old Portuguese: moogo
        • Galician: Mogo (surname)}
    • → Proto-West Germanic:
  • Borrowings:
    • → Albanian: murg, munëg
    • → Basque: monako
    • → Old Irish: manach (see there for further descendants)
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *manax (see there for further descendants)
    • → Swahili: mmonaki

See also

References
  • “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
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