monge

Galician

Noun

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

1. reintegrationist spelling of monxe

Further reading

• “monge”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

Old Navarro-Aragonese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmond͡ʒe/

Noun

monge m (plural monges)

1. monk

Descendants

• Aragonese: monche

References

• 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

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin monicus, alteration of monachus.

Noun

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

1. monk

Descendants

• Occitan: monge, morghe
  • Gascon: mounje, mounye, mouyne, mounàch
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: monje, monge (alt. spelling)
  • Galician: monxe
  • Portuguese: monge
• → Old Navarro-Aragonese: monge
  • Aragonese: monche
• → Old Spanish: monje
  • Spanish: monje
    • → Cebuano: monghe
    • → Tagalog: monghe
• Unsorted:
  • → Asturian: monxu

References

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

Paraguayan Guaraní

Verb

monge

1. to go to sleep

Portuguese

monge

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmõ.ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmõ.ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmõ.ʒe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmõ.ʒɨ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Hyphenation: mon‧ge

Noun

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

1. monk

Further reading

• “monge”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “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

Uneapa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moŋe/

Verb

monge

1. to sleep

Further reading

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