mon

• Rhymes: -ɒn

From Japanese 文 (mon). Cognate to wen, mun and van.

mon

1. The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.
2. The badge or emblem a Japanese family, especially a family of the ancient feudal nobility; typically circular and consists of conventionalized forms from nature.

From a dialectal variant of man; compare Western Middle English mon (alongside Eastern man).

mon

1. (slang, used in the vocative) A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica and Shropshire in England.

• (term of address for a man) mate (British, Australia), dude

Clipping of monster, via Japanese モン (mon) in Pokémon, Digimon etc.

mon (plural mons)

1. (fandom slang) A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles.
   • 2000 November 25, Thomas Conner, “Digimon Top Ten Choice List”, in alt.fan.digimon, Usenet‎:

     Here they are, the fans voted for them, and here they are, the Mons that can...

   • 2003 February 15, sirSTACK, “Digimon #429”, in alt.fan.digimon, Usenet‎:

     When a mon attacks him, he returns the same strike with the world "Reflection" after it, double the original strength.

   • 2011 June 6, Clayton, “PW! - Training Interlude”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon, Usenet‎:

     And thus did it come to pass that the boy and the two mons, after a brief final discussion began the training.

2. (fandom slang) A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.
   • 2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, in alt.home.repair, Usenet‎:

     Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandised mons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...

   • 2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, in alt.ozdebate, Usenet‎:

     And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloody Mons or you will never hear the ned of it :-)

   • 2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime an U.S. cartoons?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc, Usenet‎:

     At any rate Digimon was the best mon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.

• -nom, MNO, NOM, ONM, no'm, nom, nom-, nom.

• mònn, moon

From Middle High German man, from Old High German man, from Proto-Germanic *mann-. Cognate with German Mann, Dutch man, English man, Icelandic maður, Swedish man, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌰 (manna).

mon

1. (Sauris) man
2. (Sauris) husband

• “mon” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Occitan mon, from Vulgar Latin mum, reduced form of Latin meus, meum, from Proto-Italic *meos. Compare Occitan and French mon.

In unstressed position in Vulgar Latin meum, meam etc. were monosyllabic and regularly became mon, ma etc. in Catalan. When stressed they were disyllabic and became meu, mia > meua etc.

mon m (feminine ma, masculine plural mos, feminine plural mes)

1. my

The use of mon and the other possessive determiners is mostly archaic in the majority of dialects, with articulated possessive pronouns (e.g. el meu) mostly being used in their stead. However, mon, ton, and son are still widely used before certain nouns referring to family members and some affective nouns, such as amic, casa, and vida. Which nouns actually find use with the possessive determiners depends greatly on the locale.

The standard masculine plural form is mos, but mons can be found in some dialects.

• meu

• “mon” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

mon

1. I wonder

   Mon luftmodstanden kan være betydningsfuld?

   Might air resistance be significant, I wonder?

   Nå, mon ikke de snart er færdige.

   Er det mon bare et spørgsmål om at opskrive alle tilfælde, og så udstrege alle de umulige?

   I wonder if if it is just a matter of enumerating all cases, and then excluding the impossible ones?

• monstro

From Middle French mon, from Old French mun, mon, meon, from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin mum, a reduced variant of Latin meum, nominative masculine and neuter singular of meus.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃/

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mon m (singular)

1. (possessive) my (used to qualify masculine nouns and vowel-initial words regardless of gender).

   J'ai perdu mon chapeau.

   I lost my hat.

   La décision a été prise pendant mon absence.

   The decision was taken in my absence.

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

mon m (plural mons)

1. Followed by rank, address to a (male) superior officer in the military. Army-specific short for "monsieur".

• “mon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• nom

From Portuguese mão. Cognates with Kabuverdianu mon.

mon

1. hand

mon

1. Rōmaji transcription of もん

From Portuguese mão.

mon

1. hand

mon

1. a language

From Old English mann, from Proto-Germanic *mann-, from Proto-Indo-European *mon-.

• man, manne, monne, mæn

mon (plural men)

1. man (male human)
2. human, person

• frendman
• foman
• lege man
• manful

• Scots: man
• English: man
• Yola: man

mon

1. Alternative form of man

• “man (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

mon

1. Alternative form of mone (“moon”)

• “mon(e (n.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmon/

mon

1. nominative of mun

From Old Occitan mon, from Vulgar Latin mum, a reduced variant of Latin meum.

mon m sg (feminine singular ma, masculine plural mos, feminine plural mas)

1. my

   Synonyms: meu, mieu

• moun (Anglo-Norman)
• mun (Anglo-Norman)
• meon (very early Old French; Oaths of Strasbourg)

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin mum, a reduced variant of Latin meum, nominative neuter singular of meus.

• IPA^(key): /mõn/
• Rhymes: -õn

mon m (feminine ma, plural mes)

1. my (first-person singular possessive)

• French: mon

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin mum, a reduced variant of Latin meum, nominative neuter singular of meus.

• mo

mon m (feminine ma)

1. my (belonging to me)

• Catalan: mon
• Occitan: mon

From Latin mundus.

mon m (oblique plural mons, nominative singular mons, nominative plural mon)

1. world
   • circa 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Anc no gardei sazo ni mes:

     Tota gens ditz que Vianes
     Es la melher terra del mon

     Everyone says that Vianes
     is the best land in the world

• Catalan: món
• Occitan: mond

mon

1. man

From Proto-Samic *monë.

mon

1. I

• Entry 72529 in Álgu database

mon

1. definite singular of mo

mon

1. tree that bears fruit or nuts

mon (uncountable mons)

1. money