mūks

mūks

See also: muks

Latvian

Mūks

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse munkr (“monk”) (cf. also Swedish, Danish munk), itself a borrowing from Late Latin monachus (in a variant form *monikus), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “isolated, lonely”), from μόνος (mónos, “one, alone”). This word must have been borrowed during the time of the un > ū change (9th-12th century); its first mention (already in its modern form), however, is found in 17th-century dictionaries.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mūːks]

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Noun

mūks m (1st declension, feminine form: mūķene)

1. monk (male member of a monastic or religious order, usually lives in a monastery)

   mūku iesvētīšana ― the ordaining of monks

   mūks vientuļnieks ― hermit monk

   dzīvot kā mūkam ― to live like a monk (= in isolation)

   kristietības pirmie mūki bija ēģiptiešu Antonijs Lielais un Pahomijs Lielais ― the first Christian monks were the Egyptians Anthony the Great and Pachomius the Great

Declension

Declension of mūks (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	mūks	mūki
accusative (akuzatīvs)	mūku	mūkus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	mūka	mūku
dative (datīvs)	mūkam	mūkiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	mūku	mūkiem
locative (lokatīvs)	mūkā	mūkos
vocative (vokatīvs)	mūk	mūki

See also

• abats, abatija
• askēts
• klosteris
• priesteris

References

1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “mūks”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN