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monago

Spanish, noun

monago is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “altar boy, acolyte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, mónago is a different word: “monk”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante informal de monaguillo”.

What does monago mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealtar boy, acolyte

noun

as mónago
  1. 1

    masculineobsoletemonk

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante informal de monaguillo.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of monago

  • monagos plural
  • mónagos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is monago in Spanish?

monago appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).