μονή

See also: μόνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μένω (ménō) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mo.nɛ̌ː/ → /moˈni/ → /moˈni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mo.nɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /moˈne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /moˈni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /moˈni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /moˈni/

Noun

μονή • (monḗ) f (genitive μονῆς); first declension

1. a staying, abiding, tarrying, stay; persistence, continuance
   • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 1129
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 957
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 418, (lyric poetry)
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.1.5
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1..94, (opposed to ἔξοδος)
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 437b, (opposed to φορά)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 205a.17, (opposed to κίνησις)
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.131:

     τὴν μονὴν ποιεῖσθαι

     tḕn monḕn poieîsthai

     make delay, tarry

   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 4.41.4:

     μὴ λαμβάνειν μονὴν μηδὲ στάσιν

     mḕ lambánein monḕn mēdè stásin

   • 400 BCE – 250 BCE, Aristoxenus, Harm. p.12.M.:

     μ. τις καὶ στάσις τῆς φωνῆς

     m. tis kaì stásis tês phōnês

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 230a.20, (plural)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul 408b.18:

     κινήσεις ἢ μοναί

     kinḗseis ḕ monaí

   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 1.3.12:

     μονὰς ποιεῖσθαι

     monàs poieîsthai

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics 99b.36:

     τοῦ αἰσθήματος

     toû aisthḗmatos

   1. permanence
      • 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Nat. 11.10:

        τῆς γῆς

        tês gês

      • C.E. 515–529, Damascius Diadochus, edited by Charles-Émile Ruelle, Ἀπορίαι καὶ λύσεις περὶ τῶν πρώτων ἀρχῶν εἰς τὸν Πλάτωνος Παρμενίδην, volume I of II, Paris: C. Klincksieck, bibliopola, published 1889, ¶ 36, page 73, lines 16–17:

        Ἀεὶ γὰρ ἡ μονὴ πρὸ πάσης προόδου οὔπω δὲ τὰ διάφορα ἐπὶ τῆς ἀδιαφόρου φύσεως.

        Aeì gàr hē monḕ prò pásēs proódou oúpō dè tà diáphora epì tês adiaphórou phúseōs.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • 〃, ¶ 72, page 158, lines 15–22:

        Πάλιν δὲ ἀπ᾽ ἄλλης ἀρχῆς ἀρξάμενοι λέγομεν περὶ γνωστοῦ τε καὶ γνώσεως, καὶ ἔτι πρότερον περὶ μονῆς καὶ προόδου καὶ ἐπιστροφῆς· ἀπὸ γὰρ τούτων τῶν λόγων φανεῖται καὶ τίς ἡ χρεία τῆς γνώσεως καὶ τί τὸ γνωστόν· ἔτι δὲ ἀπὸ τούτων ἀπορήσομεν καὶ εἴ τίς ἐστι μονὴ καὶ πρόοδος καὶ ἐπιστροφὴ ἐν τῷ ἡνωμένῳ· καὶ πρό γε πάντων ζητητέον πῶς τὸ πρῶτον ἀφ᾽ ἑτέρου ἕτερον διεκρίθη· τὸ γὰρ δὴ πρῶτον διακρινόμενον ἢ διακεκριμένον (ἔστω γὰρ ἐπὶ τούτου ὁ λόγος), τὸ δ᾽ οὖν διακεκριμένον, ἀλλὰ πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖνο ἀφ᾽ οὗ διακέκριται, ὅτι καὶ αὐτὸ διακεκριμένον.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. (grammar) preservation
      • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 50.25:

        τοῦ ν

        toû n

2. a stopping-place, station; apartment, mansion; quarters, billets
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 10.31.7
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 14:2:

     ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τοῦ πατρός μου μοναὶ πολλαί εἰσιν· εἰ δὲ μή, εἶπον ἂν ὑμῖν· πορεύομαι ἑτοιμάσαι τόπον ὑμῖν.

     en têi oikíāi toû patrós mou monaì pollaí eisin; ei dè mḗ, eîpon àn humîn; poreúomai hetoimásai tópon humîn.

   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 14:23:

     ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Ἐάν τις ἀγαπᾷ με, τὸν λόγον μου τηρήσει, καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου ἀγαπήσει αὐτόν, καὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐλευσόμεθα, καὶ μονὴν παρ’ αὐτῷ ποιήσομεν.

     apekríthē ho Iēsoûs kaì eîpen autôi, Eán tis agapâi me, tòn lógon mou tērḗsei, kaì ho patḗr mou agapḗsei autón, kaì pròs autòn eleusómetha, kaì monḕn par’ autôi poiḗsomen.

   • Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 527.5, (Hierapolis)
   1. monastery
      • ante C.E. 390, Gregory of Nazianzus 220, (in volume 37 of Patrologia Graeca (1857–1866), edited by Jacques Paul Migne)
      • 482 CE – 565 CE, Justinian, New Constitutions 133.1
3. appearance in a court of law
   • iii B.C., PHib. 93.2
   • iii B.C., PHib. 111.31

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μονή; τῆς μονῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μονή hē monḗ	τὼ μονᾱ́ tṑ monā́	αἱ μοναί hai monaí
Genitive	τῆς μονῆς tês monês	τοῖν μοναῖν toîn monaîn	τῶν μονῶν tôn monôn
Dative	τῇ μονῇ têi monêi	τοῖν μοναῖν toîn monaîn	ταῖς μοναῖς taîs monaîs
Accusative	τὴν μονήν tḕn monḗn	τὼ μονᾱ́ tṑ monā́	τᾱ̀ς μονᾱ́ς tā̀s monā́s
Vocative	μονή monḗ	μονᾱ́ monā́	μοναί monaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Quotations

• 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 1063d, (in the sense of the French halte, séjour)
• 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 747c, (in the sense of the French repos, pause)

Descendants

• Greek: μονή (moní)
• Coptic: ⲙⲟⲛⲏ (monē)

Further reading

• “μονή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μονή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μονή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3438 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • delay idem, page 207.
  • habitation idem, page 380.
  • slowness idem, page 786.
  • sojourn idem, page 791.
  • stay idem, page 813.
  • stop idem, page 820.
  • tardiness idem, page 855.
  • time idem, page 875.
  • vacillation idem, page 942.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μονή (monḗ).

Noun

μονή • (moní) f (plural μονές)

1. monastery, nunnery, convent

   Synonym: μοναστήρι (monastíri)

Declension

Declension of μονή

	singular	plural
nominative	μονή •	μονές •
genitive	μονής •	μονών •
accusative	μονή •	μονές •
vocative	μονή •	μονές •

Coordinate terms

• αρχοντάρης m (archontáris, “guest master”)
• αρχονταρίκι n (archontaríki, “guesthouse”)
• καλόγερος m (kalógeros, “monk”)

Related terms

• μοναστηριακός (monastiriakós, “monastic”)
• μοναχός m (monachós, “monk”)

Adjective

μονή • (moní)

1. Nominative, accusative and vocative feminine singular form of μονός (monós).

Further reading

• μονή, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• Ελληνικά μοναστήρια on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el