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Where does “monogram” come from?

Monogram comes from French monogramme, from Ancient Greek μονόγραμμον, from Ancient Greek μονόγραμμος meaning composed of single letters or lines.

monogram (English): A picture drawn in line only, before the colour...

Definitions

  1. A picture drawn in line only, before the colour...

Ancestry of “monogram”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmonogrammea monogram
2Latinmonogrammus—
3Ancient Greekμονόγραμμοςoutlined”, “drawn with single lines

Words derived from “monogram”

  • monogrammist
  • monogrammic
  • monogrammer
  • monogrammal
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