μονόλιθος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μουνόλιθος (mounólithos) — Ionic
Etymology
From μονο- (mono-, “mono-”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mo.nó.li.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /moˈno.li.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /moˈno.li.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /moˈno.li.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /moˈno.li.θos/
Adjective
μονόλῐθος • (monólĭthos) m or f (neuter μονόλῐθον); second declension
- made of one stone
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | μονόλῐθος monólĭthos |
μονόλῐθον monólĭthon |
μονολῐ́θω monolĭ́thō |
μονολῐ́θω monolĭ́thō |
μονόλῐθοι monólĭthoi |
μονόλῐθᾰ monólĭthă | ||||||||
| Genitive | μονολῐ́θου monolĭ́thou |
μονολῐ́θου monolĭ́thou |
μονολῐ́θοιν monolĭ́thoin |
μονολῐ́θοιν monolĭ́thoin |
μονολῐ́θων monolĭ́thōn |
μονολῐ́θων monolĭ́thōn | ||||||||
| Dative | μονολῐ́θῳ monolĭ́thōi |
μονολῐ́θῳ monolĭ́thōi |
μονολῐ́θοιν monolĭ́thoin |
μονολῐ́θοιν monolĭ́thoin |
μονολῐ́θοις monolĭ́thois |
μονολῐ́θοις monolĭ́thois | ||||||||
| Accusative | μονόλῐθον monólĭthon |
μονόλῐθον monólĭthon |
μονολῐ́θω monolĭ́thō |
μονολῐ́θω monolĭ́thō |
μονολῐ́θους monolĭ́thous |
μονόλῐθᾰ monólĭthă | ||||||||
| Vocative | μονόλῐθε monólĭthe |
μονόλῐθον monólĭthon |
μονολῐ́θω monolĭ́thō |
μονολῐ́θω monolĭ́thō |
μονόλῐθοι monólĭthoi |
μονόλῐθᾰ monólĭthă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| μονολῐ́θως monolĭ́thōs |
μονολῐθώτερος monolĭthṓteros |
μονολῐθώτᾰτος monolĭthṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- Greek: μονόλιθος (monólithos)
- → Arabic: مُونُولِيث (mūnūlīṯ)
- → Basque: monolito
- → Bulgarian: монолит (monolit)
- → Czech: monolit
- → Danish: monolit
- → Dutch: monoliet
- → English: monolith
- → Japanese: モノリス (monorisu)
- → Esperanto: monolito
- → Estonian: monoliit
- → Finnish: monoliitti
- → Georgian: მონოლითი (monoliti)
- → German: Monolith
- → Hebrew: מונולית (monolít)
- → Hindi: एकाश्म (ekāśma) (calque)
- → Ido: monolito
- → Irish: monailit
- → Latin: monolithus
- → Luxembourgish: Monolith
- → Maltese: monolit
- → Norwegian: monolitt
- → Persian: مونولیت (monolît)
- → Polish: monolit
- → Russian: моноли́т (monolít)
- → Serbo-Croatian: monòlīt
- → Slovak: monolit
- → Slovene: monolit
- → Swedish: monolit
- → Turkish: monolit
- → Ukrainian: моноліт (monolit)
Further reading
- “μονόλιθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μονόλιθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μονόλιθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Etymology
Also as in Ancient Greek μονόλιθος (monólithos, adjective). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Senses from French monolithe?”) μονό- (monó-, “mono-”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moˈno.li.θos/
- Hyphenation: μο‧νό‧λι‧θος
Noun
μονόλιθος • (monólithos) m (plural μονόλιθοι)
- huge stone
- huge object made up of only on piece of stone, monolith
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | μονόλιθος (monólithos) | μονόλιθοι (monólithoi) |
| genitive | μονολίθου (monolíthou) | μονολίθων (monolíthon) |
| accusative | μονόλιθο (monólitho) | μονολίθους (monolíthous) |
| vocative | μονόλιθε (monólithe) | μονόλιθοι (monólithoi) |
Related terms
- μεγάλιθος m (megálithos) (archaeology)