monologue

/ˈmɒnəˌlɔːɡ/MO-nuh-lawg

/ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/MAH-nuh-lawg

Meaningone speaking alone

Common meaning: one speaker talking at length alone

monoalone, singleLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 977 · scan
loga word, saying; reckoning, reasonLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 476 · scan
uespelling ending (via French)

‘alone, single’ + ‘a word, saying’ → monologue

Journey through time

mono — Greek μόνος “alone, single” (path traced)
log — Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) “a word, saying; reckoning, reason” (path traced)

Parts join in French as monologue.

Greekμόνος + λόγος (lógos)‘alone, single + a word, saying’
Frenchmonologue
Englishmonologue‘one speaker talking at length alone’ · today

mono also in: monolith monochrome monotonous monarch

log also in: logic biology ecology geology zoology

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek μόνος ‘alone, single’ + Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) ‘a word, saying; reckoning, reason’.

Did you know (Greek monos, "alone,…): our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), entry μόνος, p. 977 · dictionary scan

Did you know (The "word" sense…): our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry λόγος (lógos), p. 476 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry ANTHOLOGY, p. 26 · dictionary scan

Roots

λόγος (lógos) Ancient Greek “a word, saying; reckoning, reason”
μόνος Greek “alone, single”

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