menoides

Latin

Alternative forms

• mīnoīdēs (codical variant)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μηνοειδής (mēnoeidḗs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meː.noˈiː.deːs/, [meːnoˈiːd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.noˈi.des/, [menoˈiːd̪es]

Adjective

mēnoīdēs (neuter mēnoīdes or mēnoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentoid
   • AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):

     Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

• This word is found in some editions of Julius Firmicus Maternus's Matheseos libri, where it is taken to mean "crescent-shaped" based on the presumed Greek etymon; however, other editions have monoīdēs (which is taken to mean "having a single form, uniform" based on its presumed etymon), and it is not clear which editions are correct and which have miswritten the word. Both words are also attested elsewhere.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	mēnoīdēs	mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs		mēnoīdēs	mēnoīdia
genitive	mēnoīdis			mēnoīdium
dative	mēnoīdī			mēnoīdibus
accusative	mēnoīdem	mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs		mēnoīdēs	mēnoīdia
ablative	mēnoīdī			mēnoīdibus
vocative	mēnoīdes mēnoīdēs			mēnoīdēs	mēnoīdia

See also

• monoīdēs