monoīdēs

Meaning

1. Late LatinMedieval Latinone terminationhaving a single form, uniform
   Est itaqꝫ [itaque] ☽ aut synodica, aut plena, aut dichotomos, aut monoides, aut amphycitos, & [et] pꝑ [per] has mutatas formas cursus menstrui luminis complet.4th century, Julius Firmicus Maternus, Matheseos libri VIII. In: Iulii Firmicima terni iunioris siculi u. c. ad mauortium Lollianum Astronomicῶn Lib. VIII. per Nicolaum Prucknerum Astrologum nuper ab innumeris mendis uindicati. Basileae [in Basel], mense martio, anno M. D. XXXIII [March 1533], page 85
   Cum vero monoides est, aut dicotomos, aut tricotomos, minus accensa videtur.Alexander Neckam, De naturis rerum, cap. XIII, De sole et luna. In: Thomas Wright (editor), Alexandri Neckam de naturis rerum libri duo. With the poem of the same author, de laudibus divinae sapientiae, part of the series Rerum britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, London, 1868, page 50

Declension

Origins

From the Ancient Greek μονοειδής (monoeidḗs, “one in kind”, “simple”).