monachus

monachus

See also: Monachus

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.

    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
        • → 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 Late variant monicus:

    • Italo-Dalmatian:
      • Venetan: munego, monego
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Ligurian: mónego
      • Lombard: mòneg
      • Piedmontese: monio
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: mouéno
      • Old Catalan: monjo (see there for further descendants)
      • Old French: monie (see there for further descendants)
      • Old Occitan: monge (see there for further descendants)
    • Borrowings:
      • → Proto-West Germanic: *munik (see there for further descendants)

    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.
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