monometer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *men-der.

Proto-Hellenic *mónwos

Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)

Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.

English mono-

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *médeti

Proto-Germanic *metaną

Proto-West Germanic *metan

Old English metan

Middle English meten

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

Middle English metere

English meter

English monometer

From mono- + meter.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo‧no‧me‧ter

Noun

monometer (plural monometers)

1. (poetry) A line of verse containing a single metrical foot.

Translations

having one meter

• Catalan: monòmetre m
• French: monomètre (fr) m
• Portuguese: monómetro (pt) m (Portugal), monômetro (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: monometru (ro) n
• Spanish: monómetro m

See also

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

• metronome, monotreme, nomotreme