mono-

See also: mono, Mono, moño, and -mono

English

Alternative forms

• mon- (before some vowel-initial roots)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒn.əʊ̯/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔn.əw/, /ˈmɔn.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑ.nə/, /ˈmɑː.nə/, (before vowels) /ˈmɑ.now/

Prefix

Greek number prefix

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mono-

1. one, single, only

Synonyms

• uni- (from Latin)

Antonyms

• poly- (from Ancient Greek)
• multi- (from Latin)

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with mono-

Translations

one

• Armenian: մի (hy) (mi), մեն (hy) (men)
• Bulgarian: едно- (edno-), моно- (mono-)
• Catalan: mono- (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一 (zh) (yī), 單 / 单 (zh) (dān)

• Dutch: mono- (nl)
• Finnish: yksi- (fi), mono- (fi)
• French: mono- (fr), uni- (fr)
• Galician: mono- (gl)
• Georgian: მონო- (mono-), ერთ- (ert-)
• German: mono- (de), ein- (de)
• Greek: μονο- (el) (mono-)
• Hebrew: חד־ (khad), מונו- (he) (mono-)
• Indonesian: mono-, eka-
• Irish: aon-
• Japanese: 一 (ja) (い, i, いち, ichi, ひと, hito), 単 (ja) (たん, tan), モノ (ja) (mono)
• Malay: eka- (ms), mono- (ms)
• Manx: un-
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵢⵏ- m (ayn-), ⵜⴰⵢⵏ- f (tayn-), ⵉⵢⵏ- m pl (iyn-), ⵜⵉⵢⵏ- f pl (tiyn-)
• Old English: ān-
• Polish: mono- (pl)
• Portuguese: mono- (pt)
• Russian: одно- (odno-), моно- (ru) (mono-)
• Spanish: mono- (es)
• Tibetan: གཅིག་མ (gcig ma)
• Ukrainian: одно- (odno-), моно- (mono-)

See also

• Thesaurus:number

Further reading

• “mono-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “mono-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Moon, OMON, moon, nomo-

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [mu.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [mo.no]

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Derived terms

Catalan terms prefixed with mono-

Further reading

• “mono-” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mono-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mono-” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mono-” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Dutch terms prefixed with mono-

Finnish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmono-/, [ˈmo̞no̞-]

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Usage notes

• mono- and uni- are used when the headword is a loan. Else, yksi- is used. For example, monogamy is monogamia or yksiavioisuus.

Anagrams

• moon

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Derived terms

French terms prefixed with mono-

Galician

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”).

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Derived terms

From

Galician terms prefixed with mono-

.

German

Alternative forms

• mon- (before some vowel-initial roots)

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo(ː)no/
• Hyphenation: mo‧no-

• Audio:

  (file)

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Derived terms

German terms prefixed with mono-

Further reading

• “mono-” in Duden online
• “mono-” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”).

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Derived terms

Italian terms prefixed with mono-

Anagrams

• -nomo, nomo, nomò

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, singular”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːnʊ/

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with mono-

References

• “mono-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mono-” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, singular”).

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with mono-

References

• “mono-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.nɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔnɔ
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

   ‎mono- + ‎-gram → ‎monogram

Derived terms

Polish terms prefixed with mono-

Further reading

• mono- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmõ.no/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmõ.no/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmo.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɔ.nɔ/

Prefix

mono-

1. mono- (having only one of something)

Derived terms

Portuguese terms prefixed with mono-

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”).

Prefix

mono-

1. mono-

   Synonym: uni-

Derived terms

Spanish terms prefixed with mono-

Further reading

• “mono-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10