monogamous

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *mender.

Proto-Hellenic *mónwos

Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)

Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.

English mono-

English -gamous

English monogamous

From mono- + -gamous.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈnɒɡəməs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈnɑɡəməs/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡəməs

Adjective

monogamous (not comparable)

1. (strictly) Involving marriage to one person at a time.

   Antonym: polygamy

   • 2006 March 16, Robert H. Frank, “Polygamy and the Marriage Market: Who Would Have the Upper Hand?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Suppose, for example, that if polygamy were legal, 10 percent of adult men would take an average of three wives apiece and that all remaining marriages would be monogamous.

2. (of a relationship) Characterized by mutual sexual and romantic exclusively.
3. (of a person) Exclusively engaging in mutually exclusive sexual/romantic partnership.
4. (zoology) Having only one sexual partner at a time.
5. (botany) Monogamic; having a simple flower with united anthers.

Derived terms

• monogamish
• monogamously
• monogamousness
• nonmonogamous
• trinogamous

Related terms

• monogamy

Translations

being married to one person at a time

• Armenian: միակին (hy) (miakin)
• Asturian: monógamu
• Belarusian: манага́мны (manahámny), аднашлю́бны (adnašljúbny)
• Catalan: monògam
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一夫一妻 (zh) (yī fū yī qī), 一夫一妻制 (zh) (yī fū yī qī zhì)

• Danish: monogam (da)
• Esperanto: monogamia (eo), monogama
• Finnish: yksiavioinen (fi)
• French: monogame (fr)
• German: monogam (de)
• Hungarian: monogám (hu), egynejű (hu)
• Icelandic: einkvænis-, (adhering to monogamy) sem aðhyllist einkvæni
• Ido: monogama (io)
• Irish: aonchéileach, monagamach
• Italian: monogamo
• Japanese: 一夫一婦の (ippuippu no)
• Polish: monogamiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: monógamo (pt) m
• Russian: монога́мный (ru) (monogámnyj), единобра́чный (ru) (jedinobráčnyj)
• Spanish: monógamo (es)
• Swedish: monogam (sv)
• Thai: ผัวเดียวเมียเดียว (pǔua-diao-miia-diao)
• Turkish: tekeşli (tr)
• Ukrainian: монога́мний (monohámnyj), одношлю́бний (odnošljúbnyj)

having only one sexual partner at a time

• Catalan: monògam
• German: monogam (de)
• Hungarian: monogám (hu)
• Irish: aonchéileach, monagamach
• Portuguese: monógamo (pt) m

See also

• polygamous