μόνος

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

From Proto-Hellenic *mónwos. For the ending, compare οἶος (oîos, “only, single”) from *óywos.^[1] The etymology of the initial element is uncertain, but it may come from a Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”); compare Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “sparse, rare”), Armenian մանր (manr, “slender, small”),^[2] and possibly Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“small fish, minnow”).

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

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

• → English: mono-
• Greek: μόνος (mónos)
• Mariupol Greek: мо́нос (mónos), мо́ну (mónu)

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], 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 779.
  • singly idem, page 779.
  • sole idem, page 792.
  • solitary idem, page 792.
  • unaided idem, page 906.
  • unassisted idem, page 907.
  • unattenend idem, page 907.
  • unsupported idem, page 933.

Inherited from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos).

Compare Mariupol Greek мо́нос (mónos), мо́ну (mónu).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmonos/
• Hyphenation: μό‧νος

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

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

   Ο Κώστας ήταν ο μόνος που έτρεξε να βοηθήσει.

   O Kóstas ítan o mónos pou étrexe na voïthísei.

   Kostas was the only one to run for help.

• “μόνος”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998