monachus

See also: Monachus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.na.kʰus/, [ˈmɔnäkʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate 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

Related terms

• monacha
• monachalis
• monachatio
• monachatus
• monachia
• monachicus
• monachīlis
• monachitas
• monachīum
• monastērium
• monasticus
• monastria

 

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: monaco
  • Sicilian: mònacu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *monicus
  • Padanian:
    • Ligurian: mónego
    • Lombard: mòneg
    • Piedmontese: monio
    • Romansch: muntg, montg, muong
    • Venetan: munego, monego
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: mouéno, moyno

      Valdôtain: mougni

    • Old French: moingne
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: moncho, monche
    • Old Catalan: monjo
      • Catalan: monjo
      • → Sardinian: mongiu, monzu
    • Old Occitan: monge, monegue, mongue, morgue, morge, molge, mergue, monje (alt. spelling)
      • Occitan: monge, morghe
      • → 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
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: moogo
      • Galician: Mogo (surname)}
  • → Proto-West Germanic:
    • Old English: munuc (see there for further descendants)
    • West Frisian: muonts
    • Old Saxon: munik
    • Old Dutch: *monik
      • Middle Dutch: monic
        • Dutch: monnik
          • Afrikaans: monnik
    • Old High German: munih
      • Middle High German: munich, munch, münch, münech, münich
        • Alemannic German: Mönch
        • German: Mönch
        • Luxembourgish: Mënch
        • Vilamovian: mynich
      • → Old Church Slavonic: мънихъ (mŭnixŭ)
      • → Old Czech: mnich
        • Czech: mnich
        • → Polish: mnich
      • → Slovene: mních, menih
      • → Slovak: mních
• 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

• abbas

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.