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:
    • Old Leonese: monago
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: moogo
      • Galician: Mogo (surname)
  • 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:

  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: muini
    • Ligurian: mónego
    • Lombard: mòneg
    • Piedmontese: monio
    • Romansch: muntg, montg, muong
    • Venetan: munego, monego
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: monjo (see there for further descendants)
    • Franco-Provençal: mouéno
    • Old French: monie (see there for further descendants)
    • Gascon: mounje, mounye, mouyne, mounàch
    • 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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