Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μοῦνος ‎(moûnos) Epic, Ionic
• μῶνος ‎(mônos) Doric

Adjective

μόνος • ‎(mónos) m ‎(feminine μόνη, neuter μόνον); first/second declension

1. alone, forsaken, solitary
2. only
3. unique

Declension

Derived terms

• μονοειδής ‎(monoeidḗs)

Descendants

• English: mono-
• Greek: μόνος ‎(mónos)

References

• μόνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μόνος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μόνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3441”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • alone idem, page 25.
  • desolate idem, page 216.
  • isolated idem, page 461.
  • lonely idem, page 498.
  • only idem, page 574.
  • single idem, page 777.
  • single-handed idem, page 778.
  • singly idem, page 778.
  • sole idem, page 792.
  • solitary idem, page 792.
  • unaided idem, page 906.
  • unassisted idem, page 907.
  • unattenend idem, page 907.
  • unsupported idem, page 933.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος ‎(mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *men- ‎(“small”).

Adjective

μόνος • ‎(mónos) m ‎(feminine μόνη, neuter μόνο)

1. solitary, alone
2. unmarried
3. solo, unaccompanied
4. unique, singular
5. (when used with article) only

   Ο Κώστας ήταν ο μόνος που έτρεξε να βοηθήσει.

   Kostas was the only one to run for help.

Declension

Related terms

• μονός ‎(monós, “single, odd”)