monometer

monometer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mender.

Proto-Hellenic *mónwos

Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)

Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.

English mono-

English meter

English monometer

From mono- + meter.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: mo‧no‧me‧ter

Noun

monometer (plural monometers)

(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