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- Monad is an English term meaning "one", "single", or "unit", especially in technical contexts. It comes from the Late Latin stem monad-, which comes from the Greek word monos or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", or "unique"),
This needs to be worked into the stub. --Piet Delport 16:50, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
- It's μοναδ in Greek itself (modern and apparently ancient, not from Latin).--06:16, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
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Should myriad be included here? It appears that the -ad in myriad was brought in with the word from French, whereas the -ad in monad is an English suffix which was applied when the word was brought in directly from Latin. The English -ad comes from the Ancient Greek -άς, which is part of the word μυριάς, which is an ancestor of myriad. The Ancient Greek entry for μυριάς indicates that comes from the suffix -ᾰ́ς. The difference between -άς and -ᾰ́ς seems to be one of Modern versus Ancient Greek. Pauldebarros (talk) 12:39, 15 September 2022 (UTC)