Μονάξιος

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `alone'.

Other forms: ep. Ion. μοῦνος, Theoc. μῶνος

Compounds: Very often as 1. member, e.g. μόν-(μούν-)αρχος m. `monarch' with - έω, - ία etc. (Thgn., Pi., IA; cf. Scheller KZ 74, 233 n. 1).

Derivatives: 1. μονάς, μουνάς, - άδος adj. f. (also m. Schwyzer 507, Chantraine Form. 358) `lonely' Trag., AP), subst. f. `unity' (Pl.; Schwyzer 597) with μοναδ-ιαῖος `of uniform greatness' (Hero), - ικός `consisting of unities, uniform, individual' (Arist.), - ιστί adv. `in unities' (Nicom.), - ισμός m. `formation of unity' (Dam.). -- 2. μοναχ-ῃ̃ (Pl., X.), - ῶς (Arist.) `only in one way', - οῦ (Pl., Thphr.) `onl in one place'; adj. μοναχός `individual' (Arist., Epicur.), also m. `hermit, monk' (AP, Procop.), Lat. monachus, with f. μονάχ-ουσα (Jerusalem VI^p), adj. - ικός `belonging to a hermit, monkish' (Just., pap. VI<sup>p</sup>); subst. μοναχισμός `monastic life', cf. Leumann Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 304; μοναχ-όω `get lonely' (Aq.). -- 3. μουνάξ adv. `lonely, alone' (Od., Arat.; to μοναχοῦ etc.?, Schwyzer 620), μοναξία `lonelyness' (sch., Eust.) from *μοναξός as διξός etc., PN Μονάξιος (V<sup>p</sup>); Schulze KZ 33, 394f. = Kl. Schr. 313f., Schwyzer 598. -- 4. μονιός, μούνιος `living alone, wild' (Call., AP), μονίας m. `lonely man' (Ael.). -- 5. μονία, - ίη `lonelyness, celibate' (Max.), μονότης f. `unity' (Sm., Iamb.), `singularity' (Alex. Aphr. in Metaph.). -- 6. μουνόθεν (Hdt. 1, 116; v. 1. - οθέντα), μονά-δην (A. D., EM), μουνα-δόν (Opp.) `lonely, alone'. -- 7. Verbs: μονόομαι ( μουν-), - όω `be left alone, leave alone' (Il.; Wackernagel Unt. 122ff.) with μόν-ωσις `lonelyness' (Pl., Ph.), - ώτης m. = μονίας (Arist.), - ωτικός `(left) alone' (Ph.); μονάζω `stay alone, isolate oneself' (LXX, Christ. writers, gramm.) with μονασμός `lonely situation' (Eust.), μοναστήριον `cel of a hermit, cloister' (Ph., pap.), μονάστρια f. `nun' (Just.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [728] * men- `small, alone'

Etymology: Beside PGr. *μόνϜος, from where Ion. μοῦνος, Att. etc. μόνος (Kretschmer KZ 31, 444), stands, though in meaning a little apart, *μανϜός in μᾱνός, μανός (s.v.) `thin, rare', which agrees with Arm. manr, gen. manu `small, thin'. An element -u̯o- appears also in the synonymous οἶϜος (s. οἶος) and in ὅλος (s.v.) of related meaning; further *μόνϜος is isolated. A quite different formation with velar shows Skt. manā́k `a little', Lith. meñkas `scanty', Toch. B meṅki `less' a.o.; ambiguous is Hitt. maninku- `short, near' (formation as Lat. prop-inquus? Duchesne-Guillemin Trans. Phil. Soc. 1946 p. 82f., Benveniste BSL 50, 41). On the occasional contact with the group of μινύθω s.v.; also WP. 2, 266 f. Pok. 728 f., W.-Hofmann s. minor. -- Improbable Hahn Lang. 18, 88.

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