"mono-" meaning in English

See mono- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prefix

IPA: /ˈmɒn.əʊ/ [UK], /ˈmɒn.ə/ [UK], /ˈmɑː.nə/ [US]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mey- (small)}}, {{der|en|grc|μόνος||alone, only, sole, single}} Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”) Head templates: {{head|en|prefix|head=|sort=}} mono-, {{en-prefix}} mono-
  1. one, single, only Wikipedia link: number prefix Tags: morpheme Categories (topical): One Synonyms: uni- (english: from Latin), mon- (english: before some vowel-initial roots) Related terms: number Translations (one): մի (mi) (Armenian), մեն (men) (Armenian), едно- (edno-) (Bulgarian), моно- (mono-) (Bulgarian), mono- (Catalan), (yī) (Chinese Mandarin), (Chinese Mandarin), (dān) (Chinese Mandarin), mono- (Dutch), yksi- (Finnish), mono- (Finnish), mono- (French), uni- (French), mono- (Galician), მონო- (mono-) (Georgian), ერთ- (ert-) (Georgian), mono- (German), ein- (German), μονο- (mono-) (Greek), חד־ (khad) (Hebrew), מונו- (mono-) (Hebrew), mono- (Indonesian), eka- (Indonesian), aon- (Irish), (alt: い, i, いち, ichi, ひと, hito) (Japanese), (tan) (alt: たん) (Japanese), モノ (mono) (Japanese), eka- (Malay), mono- (Malay), un- (Manx), ⴰⵢⵏ- (ayn-) [masculine] (Moroccan Amazigh), ⵜⴰⵢⵏ- (tayn-) [feminine] (Moroccan Amazigh), ⵉⵢⵏ- (iyn-) [masculine, plural] (Moroccan Amazigh), ⵜⵉⵢⵏ- (tiyn-) [feminine, plural] (Moroccan Amazigh), ān- (Old English), mono- (Polish), mono- (Portuguese), одно- (odno-) (Russian), моно- (mono-) (Russian), mono- (Spanish), གཅིག་མ (gcig ma) (Tibetan), одно- (odno-) (Ukrainian), моно- (mono-) (Ukrainian)

Alternative forms

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          "code": "hy",
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "one",
          "word": "單"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dān",
          "sense": "one",
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          "code": "nl",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "code": "gl",
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          "code": "ka",
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          "word": "მონო-"
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          "lang": "German",
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "mono-",
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          "sense": "one",
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        },
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          "code": "ga",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
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          "lang": "Malay",
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          "lang": "Malay",
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          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
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          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "one",
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
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          "lang": "Russian",
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
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          "word": "mono-"
        },
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          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "gcig ma",
          "sense": "one",
          "word": "གཅིག་མ"
        },
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
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      "ipa": "/ˈmɑː.nə/",
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      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "one",
      "word": "mono-"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "one",
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    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mono-",
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      "word": "моно-"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one",
      "word": "mono-"
    },
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "gcig ma",
      "sense": "one",
      "word": "གཅིག་མ"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "odno-",
      "sense": "one",
      "word": "одно-"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mono-",
      "sense": "one",
      "word": "моно-"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mono-"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.