μονόχρωμος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μονόχροος (monókhroos)
Etymology
From μονο- (mono-) + χρῶμα (khrôma) + -ος (-os)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mo.nó.kʰrɔː.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /moˈno.kʰro.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /moˈno.xro.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /moˈno.xro.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /moˈno.xro.mos/
Adjective
μονόχρωμος • (monókhrōmos) m or f (neuter μονόχρωμον); second declension
- of one color
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | μονόχρωμος monókhrōmos |
μονόχρωμον monókhrōmon |
μονοχρώμω monokhrṓmō |
μονοχρώμω monokhrṓmō |
μονόχρωμοι monókhrōmoi |
μονόχρωμᾰ monókhrōmă | ||||||||
| Genitive | μονοχρώμου monokhrṓmou |
μονοχρώμου monokhrṓmou |
μονοχρώμοιν monokhrṓmoin |
μονοχρώμοιν monokhrṓmoin |
μονοχρώμων monokhrṓmōn |
μονοχρώμων monokhrṓmōn | ||||||||
| Dative | μονοχρώμῳ monokhrṓmōi |
μονοχρώμῳ monokhrṓmōi |
μονοχρώμοιν monokhrṓmoin |
μονοχρώμοιν monokhrṓmoin |
μονοχρώμοις monokhrṓmois |
μονοχρώμοις monokhrṓmois | ||||||||
| Accusative | μονόχρωμον monókhrōmon |
μονόχρωμον monókhrōmon |
μονοχρώμω monokhrṓmō |
μονοχρώμω monokhrṓmō |
μονοχρώμους monokhrṓmous |
μονόχρωμᾰ monókhrōmă | ||||||||
| Vocative | μονόχρωμε monókhrōme |
μονόχρωμον monókhrōmon |
μονοχρώμω monokhrṓmō |
μονοχρώμω monokhrṓmō |
μονόχρωμοι monókhrōmoi |
μονόχρωμᾰ monókhrōmă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| μονοχρώμως monokhrṓmōs |
μονοχρωμότερος monokhrōmóteros |
μονοχρωμότᾰτος monokhrōmótătos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Catalan: monocrom
- → English: monochrome
- → French: monochrome
- → German: monochrom
- → Italian: monocromo
- → Portuguese: monocromo
- → Romanian: monocrom
- → Russian: монохромный (monoxromnyj)
- → Spanish: monocromo
- → Ukrainian: монохро́мний (monoxrómnyj)
Further reading
- μονόχρωμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μονόχρωμος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μονόχρωμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press