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

monogram traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French monogramme

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

via Latin monogrammum

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmonogrammum—
2Ancient Greekμονόγραμμον—

Words derived from “monogram”

Every word from Ancient Greek μονόγραμμος →Every word from Latin monogrammus →Every word from French monogramme →