μονόω (monoo)

Where it lives

1 Timothy 1 · 6.31/10k
On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Timaeus 3 · 1.27/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 4 · 0.71/10k
Enneads 11 · 0.52/10k
Histories 9 · 0.49/10k
History 7 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μονόω · monoō — LSJ

make single, solitary, made, single, allowed but one son, leave, isolated, get alone, strip of predicates, make unique

make single or solitary, ἡμετέρην γενεὴν μούνωσε Κρονίων made our race single, i.e. allowed but one son in each generation, Od. 16.117; μ. τὸν Φίλιππον leave him isolated, Plb. 5.16.10; get alone, τινὰ ἐν σπήλυγγι AP 9.451; strip of predicates, make unique, [θεόν] Plot. 6.8.15.

II to be left alone, forsaken, they were left each man by himself, taken apart, without witnesses, left solitary, to be separated, to be taken alone, to be isolated

more freq. in Pass., to be left alone, forsaken, ἐνὶ Τρώεσσι μονωθείς Il. l.c.; μουνωθέντα παρʼ οἴεσιν ἢ παρὰ βουσίν Od. 15.386; ἐμουνοῦντο they were left each man by himself, Hdt. 8.123; μουνωθέντα taken apart, without witnesses (v. l. for μουνόθεν), Id. 1.116; γυνὴ μονωθεῖσʼ οὐδέν A. Supp. 749; of animals when hunted, X. Cyn. 9.9; when left solitary, Arist. HA 578b33; of the soul, to be separated from the body, Diog.Oen. 36; of things, to be taken alone, Arist. EN 1096b17; to be isolated in th

2 deserted

c. gen. pers., μεμουνωμένοι συμμάχων deserted by allies, Hdt. 1.102, cf. 6.15, 7.139; μονωθεὶς δάμαρτος, σοῦ μονούμενος, E. Alc. 296, 380; δεσποτῶν μονούμενος Id. Rh. 871; μονωθεῖσʼ ἀπὸ πατρός Id. IA 669; μονωθεὶς μετʼ ὀλίγων Th. 6.101: abs., μεμονωμένων εἰ κρατήσειαν Id. 2.81, cf. 5.40, 58.

b bereft of, separated from, without, set free

c. gen. rei, μεμονωμένοι τῆς τῶν ἱππέων βοηθείας bereft of . . , D.S. 19.43; μονούμενος τῶν ἀγαθῶν separated from . . , Pl. Lg. 710b; μονωθεῖσαι φρονήσεως without . . , Id. Ti. 46e; μονωθεὶς ἐκ τῆς εἱρκτῆς, i.e. set free from . . , Id. Ax. 370d.

In the wild

μονωθεῖςʼ · monōtheisʼ Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 749
μονούμενα · monoumena Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1096b (DIORISIS sentence 109)
μονώτην · monōtēn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1097b (DIORISIS sentence 153)
μονούμενον · monoumenon Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1097b (DIORISIS sentence 157)
μονούμενον · monoumenon Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1172b (DIORISIS sentence 3479)
μονούμενος · monoumenos Euripides, Heracles 1386–1388

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Where it came from

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