The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμονοσύλλαβος
- Latin · derived frommonosyllabus
- Late Latin · borrowed frommonosyllabicus
- English todaymonosyllabic
Borrowed from Late Latin monosyllabicus, from Latin monosyllabus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μονοσύλλαβος (monosúllabos). By surface analysis, monosyllable + -ic or mono- + syllabic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.