Monogenes

== Latin == === Etymology === Substantivised epithet from the Ancient Greek μονογενής (monogenḗs, “unique of its kind”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɔˈnɔ.ɡɛ.neːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [moˈnɔː.d͡ʒe.nes] === Proper noun === Monogenēs m sg (genitive Monogenis); third declension (Late Latin, Valentinianism) an Aeon of the Decad, forming a syzygy with Macaria (in translation, glossed “Only-Begotten”) AD 207–211, Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (author), Mark Timothy Riley (editor, translator), Adversus Valentinianos in Q. S. Fl. Tertulliani adversus Valentinianos: Text, translation, and commentary (PhD dissertation, February 1971), Text, chapter vii, page 33: ibidem, chapter viii, pages 34–35: ibidem, chapter x, page 39: ibidem, chapter xi, page 40: ibidem, chapter xxxiii, page 67: ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, singular only. === References === “mŏnŏgĕnēs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “mŏnŏgĕnēs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “992/3”