monachus

See also: Monachus

Latin[edit]

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

monachus m (genitive monachī); second declension (Late Latin)

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:
- Sardinian: monacu, monagu (inherited medieval forms)
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
- Venetian: munego, monego
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: monjo (see there for further descendants)
- Franco-Provençal: mouéno, mouènou, mouêno, mouinno
- 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)

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŏnăchus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 69