Noun: monopteros
| Singular | monopteros |
| Plural | monopteroi |
Sample Sentences
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I leafed through the various boxes and drawers, staring sometimes for minutes on end at a star-shaped vault or diamond frieze, a hermitage, a monopteros or a mausoleum, without knowing what I was looking at or why. [2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 199:]
Nouns inflected like monopteros
saccos,
lampadarios,
sossos,
siglos,
xystos,
paragraphos,
Athinganos,
bothros,
criophoros,
petasos,
hoplomachos,
dipteros,
pseudoperipteros,
promachos,
papyros,
parodos,
kallikantzaros,
prodromos,
monopteros,
sarissophoros, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin monopteros, from Ancient Greek μονόπτερος (monópteros), from μονο- (mono-, “mono-”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing; circle of columns”).