monocolus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mŏnŏcōlus, i, m., = μονόκωλος,

onelegged , epithet applied to a fabled race of giants, each with but one leg of prodigious strength (post-Aug.): hominum genus, qui monocoli vocarentur, singulis cruribus, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 23; cf. Gell. 9, 4, 9; Sol. 52, 29.