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- Latin · derived frommōnstrōsus
- Old French · derived frommonstrueuse
- Middle English · inherited frommonstrous
- English todaymonstrous
From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous. By surface analysis, monster + -ous.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchmonstrueuse all →
monstruous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.