The story
From Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “monotone”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), equivalent to monotone + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
monotonic
Today it means: Of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982. Full definition →