The corpus record — Latin

monosyllabus

monosyllabus · adj

monosyllabic

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Where it lives

De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 117.65/10k
Technopaegnion 3 · 20.2/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

mŏnŏsyllăbus — Lewis & Short

mŏnŏsyllăbus, a, um, adj., = monosu/llabos,

I monosyllabic (post-Aug.): VOX, Mart. Cap. 3, § 269; 5, § 520.—As subst., a monosyllable: mŏnŏsyllabon, i, n. (sc. verbum), Aus. Idyll. Lit. Monosyll. 13: monosyllaba, sc. verba, Quint. 9, 4, 42; Mart. Cap. 3, § 294.

In the wild

monosyllaba Appendix Vergiliana, De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 25
monosyllaba Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 4.25
monosyllaba Appendix Vergiliana, De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 1
monosyllaba Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.41
monosyllaba Ausonius, Technopaegnion 8.1
monosyllaba Ausonius, Technopaegnion 1

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.