mon
French
determiner
Definitions
- (possessive) my (used to qualify masculine nouns and vowel-initial words regardless of gender).
- Followed by rank, obligatory way of addressing a (male) superior officer within the military. (Folk etymology: military-specific short for "monsieur".)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French mon inherited from Old French mun inherited from Latin mum, meum.
Origin
Latin
meum
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- monsieur English
- *seior Latin
- *senior Latin
- meum Latin
- mum Latin
- senior Latin
- monsù Italian
- sire Italian
- *seior, from der French
- -, der French
- LL. French
- VL. French
- croque-monsieur French
- damoiseau French
- dit French
- frm French
- fro French
- it French
- la French
- le mien French
- meum, nominative neuter singular of m French
- meus French
- mon, from der French
- mondamoiseau French
- mondit French
- monsieur French
- mum, a reduced variant of der French
- mun, from der French
- older, elder French
- pms French
- senior French
- sieur French
- sire French
- sire, from der French
- месье Russian
- мсьё Russian
- μῆον Ancient Greek
- sir Middle English
- sire Middle English
- meon Old French
- mien Old French
- mon Old French
- mun Old French
- sire Old French
- mon Catalan, Valencian
- moussieu Norman
- mon Middle French
- mon Old Occitan
- mesye Haitian, Haitian Creole
- msye Haitian, Haitian Creole
- monsù Piedmontese