μόνος

• μοῦνος (moûnos) – Epic, Ionic
• μῶνος (mônos) – Doric

From Proto-Hellenic *mónwos from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”). See also Armenian մանր (manr, “slender, small”), Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “sparse, rare”), as well as several Germanic contexts including Middle Low German mone, möne (West Frisian meun, Dutch meun), Old High German muniwa, munuwa, munewa (German Münne (“minnow”)).

μόνος • (mónos) m (feminine μόνη, neuter μόνον); first/second declension

(Attic, Koine, Byzantine)

1. alone, forsaken, solitary
2. only
3. unique

• μοναχός (monakhós)
• μονοειδής (monoeidḗs)

• English: mono-
• Greek: μόνος (mónos)
• Latin: monocytus (Contemporary Latin)

• μόνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μόνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μόνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3441 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.
  • alone idem, page 25.
  • desolate idem, page 216.
  • isolated idem, page 461.
  • lonely idem, page 498.
  • only idem, page 574.
  • single idem, page 777.
  • single-handed idem, page 779.
  • singly idem, page 779.
  • sole idem, page 792.
  • solitary idem, page 792.
  • unaided idem, page 906.
  • unassisted idem, page 907.
  • unattenend idem, page 907.
  • unsupported idem, page 933.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”).

μόνος • (mónos) m (feminine μόνη, neuter μόνο)

1. solitary, alone
2. unmarried
3. solo, unaccompanied
4. unique, singular
5. (when used with article) only

   Ο Κώστας ήταν ο μόνος που έτρεξε να βοηθήσει.

   Kostas was the only one to run for help.

• μονός (monós, “single, odd”)