Etymograph

English

monothalamous

Monothalamous comes from Ancient Greek μόνος ‘alone, forsaken, solitary’, and goes back to Proto-Hellenic *mónwos.

  1. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*mónwos1reconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμόνος2mónos‘alone, forsaken, solitary’
  3. Englishtodaymonothalamous2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Ancient Greek μόνος
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English monothalamous

Lineage

  1. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*mónwosWiktionary, Ancient Greek μόνοςreconstructed
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμόνοςWiktionary, English monothalamousmónos‘alone, forsaken, solitary’
  3. EnglishtodaymonothalamousWiktionary, English monothalamous

Linked words

through Ancient Greek μόνος ‘alone, forsaken, solitary’

monk, monastery, munch, minster, monochromatic, monolith, monad, monism, 13 more

Today it means

adj Whose spikelets are all similar.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “monothalamous”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Ancient Greek μόνος. 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.

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