The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμόνος“alone”
- New Latin · borrowed frommonismus
- English todaymonism
The word was coined by German philosopher Baron Christian von Wolff and first used in English in 1862, from New Latin monismus, from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone”). By surface analysis, mon- + -ism.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμόνος all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.