monge

monge m (plural monges, feminine monja, feminine plural monjas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of monxe

• “monge” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

monge

1. to go to sleep

Borrowed from Old Occitan monge, from Late Latin monicus, variant of monachus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmond͡ʒe/

monge m (plural monges)

1. monk

• Aragonese: monche

• Nagore Laín, Francho (2021) Vocabulario de la crónica de San Juan de la Peña (versión aragonesa, s. XIV), Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, page 313

• monegue, mongue, morgue, morge, molge, mergue
• monje (alt. spelling)

Inherited from Late Latin monicus, alteration of monachus.

monge m (oblique plural monges, nominative singular monges, nominative plural monge)

1. monk

• Occitan: monge, morghe
• → Old Navarro-Aragonese: monge
  • Aragonese: monche
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: monje, monge (alt. spelling)
  • Galician: monxe
  • Portuguese: monge
• → Old Spanish: monje
  • Spanish: monje
    • → Cebuano: monghe
    • → Tagalog: monghe

Unsorted:

• Asturian: monxu

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “monachus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 64

From Old Galician-Portuguese monge~monje, borrowed from Old Occitan monge, from Late Latin monicus, alteration of monachus. Compare Galician monxe, Spanish monje.

• Hyphenation: mon‧ge

monge m (plural monges, feminine monja, feminine plural monjas)

1. monk

• “monge” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “monge”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “monge”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Compare Proto-Central Pacific *moce "to sleep". This is somewhat problematic as it has the irregular correspondence of ŋ to *c.

• IPA^(key): /moŋe/

monge

1. to sleep

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 366