univocalic

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adjective

That uses instances of only one vowel.

OriginEnglish vocalic ← French vocalique ← Latin ūni- →
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Meanings

adjectiveunivocalic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat uses instances of only one vowel.

    Georges Perec's 1972 novella Les revenentes complemented his earlier lipogrammatic work by being a univocalic piece in which the letter e is the only vowel used.

    2015, Gyles Brandreth, Word Play
noununivocalic (plural univocalics)

plural univocalics

  1. A piece of writing that uses only one of the vowels.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  3. Proto-Italic*oinos
  4. Old Latinoinos
  5. Latinūnus
  6. Latinūni-
  7. Englishuni-
  8. Frenchvocalique
  9. Englishvocalic
  10. Englishunivocalic

From uni- + vocalic.

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APA

univocalic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univocalic

MLA

“univocalic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univocalic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “univocalic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univocalic.

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