The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμονοτονία“sameness of tone, monotony”
- Late Latin · derived frommonotonia
- French · derived frommonotonie
- English todaymonotony
From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.