menoides

• mīnoīdēs (codical variant)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μηνοειδής (mēnoeidḗs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meː.noˈiː.deːs/, [meː.nɔˈiː.deːs]

mēnoīdēs (neuter mēnoīdes or mēnoīdēs); third declension

1. (Late Latin) crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentoid
   • AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):

     Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.

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• This word is found in some editions of Julius Firmicus Maternus's Matheseos libri, where it is taken to mean "crescent-shaped" based on the presumed Greek etymon; however, other editions have monoīdēs (which is taken to mean "having a single form, uniform" based on its presumed etymon), and it is not clear which editions are correct and which have miswritten the word. Both words are also attested elsewhere.

Third declension.

• monoīdēs