menoides

• mīnoīdēs (codical variant)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μηνοειδής (mēnoeidḗs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meː.noˈiː.deːs/, [meːnoˈiːd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.noˈi.des/, [menoˈiːd̪es]

mēnoīdēs (neuter mēnoīdes or mēnoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentoid
   • AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):

     Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.

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• This word is found in some editions of Julius Firmicus Maternus's Matheseos libri, where it is taken to mean "crescent-shaped" based on the presumed Greek etymon; however, other editions have monoīdēs (which is taken to mean "having a single form, uniform" based on its presumed etymon), and it is not clear which editions are correct and which have miswritten the word. Both words are also attested elsewhere.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• monoīdēs