The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμονόπτερος
- Latin · derived frommonopteros
- English todaymonopteros
From Latin monopteros, from Ancient Greek μονόπτερος (monópteros), from μονο- (mono-, “mono-”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing; circle of columns”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.