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monkey-shines (n.)[monkey-shines 词源字典]: also monkeyshines, "monkeyish behavior, tricks, antics," 1832 (in the "Jim Crow" song), from monkey (n.) + shine (n.) "a caper, trick" (1835), from an American English slang sense perhaps related to the expression cut a shine "make a fine impression" (1819); see slang senses under shine (n.). For sense of the whole word, compare Old French singerie "disreputable behavior," from singe "monkey, ape."[monkey-shines etymology, monkey-shines origin, 英语词源]
monkish (adj.): "pertaining to a monk," 1540s, from monk (n.) + -ish. Related: Monkishly; monkishness.
monkshood (n.): also monk's-hood, 1570s, from monk (n.) + hood (n.1). So called for the shape of the flowers.
mono: 1959 as a shortening of monophonic; earlier used among printers for "monotype machine" (c. 1925) and generally for monochrome (motorcar, etc.), 1940s. From 1964 as short for mononucleosis.
mono-: word-forming element meaning "one, alone; containing one (atom, etc.)," from Greek mono-, comb. form of monos "single, alone," from PIE root *men- "small, isolated" (cognates: Greek manos "rare, sparse," Armenian manr "thin, slender, small," and perhaps English minnow).
monoceros (n.): c. 1300, "the unicorn," from Old French monoceros "unicorn," from Latin monoceros, from Greek monokeros, from mono- "single" (see mono-) + keras "horn" (see kerato-).
This is a modern constellation, generally supposed to have been first charted by Bartschius as Unicornu; but Olbers and Ideler say that it was of much earlier formation, the latter quoting allusions to it, in the work of 1564, as "the other Horse south of the Twins and the Crab"; and Scaliger found it on a Persian sphere. [Richard Hinckley Allen, "Star Names and Their Meanings," London: 1899]
monochromatic (adj.): 1807, from mono- + chromatic, or from monochrome + -atic. Related: Monochromatically (1784).
monochrome (n.): 1660s, "painting or drawing done in different tints of a single color," from Greek monochromos "of a single color," from monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + khroma (genitive khromatos) "color, complexion, skin" (see chroma). As an adjective from 1849. Photographic sense is recorded from 1940.
monocle (n.): "single eyeglass," 1886, from French monocle, noun use of adjective monocle "one-eyed, blind in one eye" (13c.), from Late Latin monoculus "one-eyed," from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + Latin oculus "eye" (see eye (n.)).
That this, a hybrid, a Gallicism, and a word with no obvious meaning to the Englishman who hears it for the first time, should have ousted the entirely satisfactory eyeglass is a melancholy illustration of the popular taste in language. [Fowler]
monocular (adj.): 1630s, from Late Latin monoculus "one-eyed," from Greek monos "alone, single" (see mono-) + Latin oculus "eye" (see eye (n.)).
monoculture (n.): "cultivation of a single crop when others are possible," 1915, from mono- "single" + culture (n.).
monogamous (adj.): "having but one wife or husband at a time," 1770, from Medieval Latin monogamus, from Greek monogamos "marrying only once" (see monogamy).
monogamy (n.): 1610s, from French monogamie, from Late Latin monogamia, from Greek monogamia, from monogamos "marrying only once," from monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + gamos "marriage" (see gamete).
monogeny (n.): "theory that humankind originated from a single pair of ancestors," 1865; see mono- + -geny.
monogram (n.): "two or more letters intertwined," 1690s, from French monogramme or directly from Late Latin monogramma (5c.), from Late Greek monogrammon "a character formed of several letters in one design," especially in reference to the signature of the Byzantine emperors, noun use of neuter of monogrammos (adj.) "consisting of a single letter," literally "drawn with single lines," from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + gramma "letter, line, that which is drawn or written" (see -gram). Earlier it meant "sketch or picture drawn in lines only, without shading or color," a sense also found in Latin and probably in Greek. Related: Monogrammatic.
monogram (v.): 1868, from monogram (n.). Related: Monogrammed; monogramming.
monograph (n.): "treatise on a single subject," 1821, from mono- + -graph "something written." Earlier was monography (1773).
monokini (n.): 1964, from mono- + bikini, on mistaken notion that the bi- element was the Greek prefix meaning "two."
monolith (n.): "column consisting of a single large block of stone," 1848, from French monolithe (16c.), from Latin monolithus (adj.) "consisting of a single stone," from Greek monolithos "made of one stone," from monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + lithos "stone." Transferred and figurative use is from 1934.
monolithic (adj.): 1825, "formed of a single block," from monolith + -ic. Figurative use from 1920.