μονογενής
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μουνογενής (mounogenḗs) – Epic, Ionic
Etymology
μόνος (mónos, “only”) + -γενής (-genḗs, “of a kind”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mo.no.ɡe.nɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mo.no.ɡeˈne̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mo.no.ʝeˈnis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mo.no.ʝeˈnis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mo.no.ʝeˈnis/
Adjective
μονογενής • (monogenḗs) m or f (neuter μονογενές); third declension
- being the only member of a kin or kind
- (Christianity, of Christ) only-begotten of the Father
- 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 1:18
- (Christianity, of Christ) only-begotten of the Father
- only, single
- Ant., Lib. 32.1
- unique
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 31b
- 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, Elements of Theology 22
- (grammar) having one form for all genders
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs 145.18
- (poetry, substantive) a metrical foot of four syllables (— — — ⏑), fourth epitrite (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
- Hephaestio, Collected Works 3.3
- ; (as adverb) (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
- only
- Peripl.M.Rubr. 56
- in a unique manner
- 400 CE – 600 CE, Aëtius, Sixteen Books on Medicine 15.1315.14
Declension
Third declension of μονογενής; μονογενές (contracted, Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | μονογενής monogenḗs | μονογενές monogenés | μονογενεῖ monogeneî | μονογενεῖ monogeneî | μονογενεῖς monogeneîs | μονογενῆ monogenê | ||||||||
Genitive | μονογενοῦς monogenoûs | μονογενοῦς monogenoûs | μονογενοῖν monogenoîn | μονογενοῖν monogenoîn | μονογενῶν monogenôn | μονογενῶν monogenôn | ||||||||
Dative | μονογενεῖ monogeneî | μονογενεῖ monogeneî | μονογενοῖν monogenoîn | μονογενοῖν monogenoîn | μονογενέσῐ / μονογενέσῐν monogenési(n) | μονογενέσῐ / μονογενέσῐν monogenési(n) | ||||||||
Accusative | μονογενῆ monogenê | μονογενές monogenés | μονογενεῖ monogeneî | μονογενεῖ monogeneî | μονογενεῖς monogeneîs | μονογενῆ monogenê | ||||||||
Vocative | μονογενές monogenés | μονογενές monogenés | μονογενεῖ monogeneî | μονογενεῖ monogeneî | μονογενεῖς monogeneîs | μονογενῆ monogenê | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
μονογενῶς monogenôs | μονογενέστερος monogenésteros | μονογενέστᾰτος monogenéstatos | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (foot): ἐπίτριτος τέταρτος (epítritos tétartos, “fourth epitrite”)
Derived terms
- μονογένειᾰ (monogéneia)
- μονογένειον (monogéneion) (Byzantine)
- μονογενητής (monogenētḗs) (Byzantine)
- μονογενητῐκός (monogenētikós) (Byzantine)
- μονογεννητός (monogennētós) (Byzantine)
- μονογεννήτριᾰ (monogennḗtria) (Byzantine)
- μονογεννήτωρ (monogennḗtōr) (Byzantine)
- μονογενῶς (monogenôs) (Byzantine)
Descendants
- German: Monogenes m
- Latin: Monogenēs
References
- “μονογενής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μονογενής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μονογενής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3439 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- only-begotten idem, page 574.