μονογενής

Ancient Greek

μόνος (mónos, “only”) +‎ -γενής (-genḗs, “of a kind”)

μονογενής • (monogenḗs) m or f (neuter μονογενές); third declension

being the only member of a kin or kind
1. (Christianity, of Christ) only-begotten of the Father
  - 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 1:18
only, single
- Ant., Lib. 32.1
unique
- 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Parmenides, On Nature 8.4
- 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) name of the foot ¯ ¯ ¯ ˘ (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 15.13
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Third declension of μονογενής; μονογενές (contracted, Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
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
Derived forms	μονογενῶς monogenôs		μονογενέστερος monogenésteros		μονογενέστᾰτος monogenéstatos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- only-begotten idem, page 574.

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