menoides
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- mīnoīdēs (codical variant)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek μηνοειδής (mēnoeidḗs).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meː.noˈiː.deːs/, [meːnoˈiːd̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.noˈi.des/, [menoˈiːd̪es]
Adjective
[edit]mēnoīdēs (neuter mēnoīdes or mēnoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentoid
- AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):
- Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):
Usage notes
[edit]- This word is found in some editions of Julius Firmicus Maternus's Matheseos libri, where it is taken to mean "crescent-shaped" based on the presumed Greek etymon; however, other editions have monoīdēs (which is taken to mean "having a single form, uniform" based on its presumed etymon), and it is not clear which editions are correct and which have miswritten the word. Both words are also attested elsewhere.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | mēnoīdēs | mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs |
mēnoīdēs | mēnoīdia | |
Genitive | mēnoīdis | mēnoīdium | |||
Dative | mēnoīdī | mēnoīdibus | |||
Accusative | mēnoīdem | mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs |
mēnoīdēs | mēnoīdia | |
Ablative | mēnoīdī | mēnoīdibus | |||
Vocative | mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs |
mēnoīdēs | mēnoīdia |