monacu

• manacu, manucu, monagu, monigu, managu (archaic)

Archaic form inherited from Latin monachus. In modern Sardinian, revived in the form monacu thanks to Italian monaco. Doublet of monzu, which arrived via Catalan.

monacu m (plural monacos)

1. monk

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “mònaku”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg