monoceros

From Old French monoceros, from Latin monocerōs.

• IPA^(key): /məˈnɒsəɹəs/

monoceros (plural monoceroses)

1. (obsolete) A unicorn.
   • 1852 June 19, George Bell, editor, Notes and Queries‎^[1], volume 5, number 138:

     The ancients were most liberal with their descriptions of fabulous animals, and the Monoceros or Unicorn was a favourite subject with them; but I am not aware whether or no the account which Spencer gives has so early an origin.

2. (obsolete) A narwhal.

• monocerous

From Ancient Greek μονόκερως (monókerōs, “having one horn”, from μόνος (mónos, “one”) +‎ κέρας (kéras, “horn”)).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔˈnɔ.kɛ.roːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈnɔː.t͡ʃe.ros]

monocerōs m (genitive monocerōtis); third declension

1. (fantasy, mythology) A unicorn
2. (New Latin) Used attributively as a specific epithet; one-horned.

Third-declension noun.

• (unicorn): ūnicornis

• → English: monoceros
• → Spanish: monocerote (learned)

• “monoceros”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “monoceros”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.