μονογενής

Ancient Greek

μόνος (mónos, “only”) +‎ -γενής (-genḗs, “of a kind”)

μονογενής • (monogenḗs) m or f (neuter μονογενές); third declension

being the only member of a kin or kind
1. (Christianity, of Christ) only-begotten of the Father
  - 90 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 1:18
only, single
- Ant., Lib. 32.1
unique
- 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 31b
- 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, Elements of Theology 22
(grammar) having one form for all genders
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs 145.18
(poetry, substantive) a metrical foot of four syllables (— — — ⏑), fourth epitrite (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense? ("substantive" lacks gender))
- AD 2nd century, Hephaestion, Ἐγχειρίδιον περὶ μέτρων 3.3

; (as adverb) (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense? (according to the sources the adverb is μονογενῶς (cp. -ῶς)))

only
- Peripl.M.Rubr. 56
in a unique manner
- 400 CE – 600 CE, Aëtius, Sixteen Books on Medicine 15.13
  15.14

Third declension of μονογενής; μονογενές (contracted, Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	μονογενής monogenḗs		μονογενές monogenés	μονογενεῖ monogeneî		μονογενεῖ monogeneî	μονογενεῖς monogeneîs		μονογενῆ monogenê
Genitive	μονογενοῦς monogenoûs		μονογενοῦς monogenoûs	μονογενοῖν monogenoîn		μονογενοῖν monogenoîn	μονογενῶν monogenôn		μονογενῶν monogenôn
Dative	μονογενεῖ monogeneî		μονογενεῖ monogeneî	μονογενοῖν monogenoîn		μονογενοῖν monogenoîn	μονογενέσῐ μονογενέσῐν monogenésĭ(n)		μονογενέσῐ μονογενέσῐν monogenésĭ(n)
Accusative	μονογενῆ monogenê		μονογενές monogenés	μονογενεῖ monogeneî		μονογενεῖ monogeneî	μονογενεῖς monogeneîs		μονογενῆ monogenê
Vocative	μονογενές monogenés		μονογενές monogenés	μονογενεῖ monogeneî		μονογενεῖ monogeneî	μονογενεῖς monogeneîs		μονογενῆ monogenê
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	μονογενῶς monogenôs			μονογενέστερος monogenésteros			μονογενέστᾰτος monogenéstătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“μονογενής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μονογενής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μονογενής in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G3439 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.
- only-begotten idem, page 574.