Etymograph

English

monorhythmic

Monorhythmic comes from Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός ‘set to time, rhythmical’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *srew- ‘to flow, stream’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*srew-1‘to flow, stream’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sru-dʰ-mo-s1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*hrutʰmós1reconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEῥῠθμός1rhŭthmós‘measured motion, rhythm’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEῥυθμικός1rhuthmikós‘set to time, rhythmical’
  6. English1500–presentrhythmic1
  7. Englishtodaymonorhythmic1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English monorhythmic

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*srew-Wiktionary, English monorhythmic‘to flow, stream’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sru-dʰ-mo-sWiktionary, English monorhythmicreconstructed
  3. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*hrutʰmósWiktionary, English monorhythmicreconstructed
  4. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEῥῠθμόςWiktionary, English monorhythmicrhŭthmós‘measured motion, rhythm’
  5. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEῥυθμικόςWiktionary, English monorhythmicrhuthmikós‘set to time, rhythmical’
  6. English1500–presentrhythmicWiktionary, English monorhythmic
  7. EnglishtodaymonorhythmicWiktionary, English monorhythmic

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *srew- ‘to flow, stream’

stream, maelstrom, rheumatism, rheumatic, rheumatology, rheology, hemorrhoid, 40 more

through Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós

arrhythmia, 29 more

through Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός ‘measured motion, rhythm’

rhythm, 28 more

through English rhythmic

rhythmical, 14 more

Today it means

adj Having a single rhyme.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “monorhythmic”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *srew- / monorhythmic

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