Etymology

monospace

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Today it means: Of a typeface, having characters with uniform width. Full definition →

English space ← Middle English space ← Anglo-Norman space
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  2. Proto-Hellenic*mónwos
  3. Ancient Greekμόνος (mónos)
  4. Ancient Greekμονο- (mono-)
  5. Englishmono-
  6. Latinspatium
  7. Old Frenchespace
  8. Anglo-Normanspace
  9. Middle Englishspace
  10. Englishspace
  11. English todaymonospace

From mono- + space.

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