Moenis

• Moenus

Of Celtic origin: the Celts originally called it *Moïn, *Mogin, later Latinized by the Romans to Moenus, the form Moenis first attested 43 CE by Pomponius Mela. The meaning is uncertain, possibly Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to strengthen”) (comparable to moenia (“walls”), or Proto-Celtic *mānis < Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“damp, wet, moist”) (see also Irish móin (“bog, moor”)).

Compare the river Meon in England.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmoe̯.nɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.nis]

Moenis m sg (genitive Moenis); third declension

1. The river Main

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

• German: Main
• Italian: Meno

• “Moenis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Moenus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Moenis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.