A.with a single, i.e. uncloven, hoof, epith. of the horse, freq. in Il., 5.236, al.; once in Od., 15.46, cf. Sol.23, E.Ph. 793 (lyr., dub.l.), Stud.Pont.3.16 (ii/i B.C.); also “μ. ὕες” Arist.HA 499b13; τὰ μ. [τῶν ζῴων] Hp.Art.8; “τετραπόδων ὅσα μ.” Porph.Abst. 4.7; [“γένει] τῷ καλουμένῳ μώνυχι” Pl.Plt.265d. (From sm- (weak form of sem-, cf. εἷς) and ὄνυξ （ὄ- lengthd. in composition).)
μῶνυξ , υ^χος, ὁ, ἡ, τό,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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