monogram

English

Alternative forms

• monogramme (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French monogramme, from the Classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin adjective monogrammus, from the conjectured (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek * μονόγραμμος (monógrammos, “outlined”, “drawn with single lines”).

Noun

monogram (plural monograms)

1. (obsolete) A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.

References

• “†monogram, n.¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Etymology 2

Formed as mono- +‎ -gram, by analogy with epigram.

Noun

monogram (plural monograms)

1. (obsolete, rare) A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.

References

• “†monogram, n.²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Etymology 3

The noun derives from the post-Classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin monogrammum, itself from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Byzantine Greek μονόγραμμον (monógrammon); compare the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French monogramme, as well as the Italian monogramma. The verb derives from the noun; compare the earlier adjective monogrammed and the slightly earlier noun monogramming.

Noun

The royal monogram of Marguerite of Lorraine (1615–1672), Duchess of Orléans and Alençon

monogram (plural monograms)

1. A design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution.

Translations

a design composed of one or more letters used as an identifying mark

• Bulgarian: моногра́ма (bg) f (monográma)
• Catalan: monograma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花押字 (huāyāzì)

• Czech: monogram m
• Danish: monogram n
• Dutch: monogram (nl) n
• Esperanto: monogramo
• Finnish: monogrammi (fi)
• French: monogramme (fr) m
• German: Monogramm (de) n
• Greek: μονόγραμμα (el) n (monógramma)
• Hungarian: monogram (hu)
• Icelandic: fangamark
• Ido: monogramo (io)
• Italian: monogramma (it) m
• Japanese: モノグラム (monoguramu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 모노그램 (monogeuraem)
• Latvian: monogramma f
• Lithuanian: monograma f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: monogram n

  Nynorsk: monogram n

• Polish: monogram (pl) m
• Portuguese: sigla (pt) f, monograma m
• Romanian: monogramă (ro) f
• Russian: моногра́мма (ru) f (monográmma), ве́нзель (ru) m (vénzelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: монограм m

  Roman: monogram (sh) m

• Spanish: monograma (es) m
• Swedish: monogram (sv) n
• Turkish: monogram
• Ukrainian: моногра́ма f (monohráma)

References

• “monogram, n.³” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Verb

1. (transitive) To mark something with a monogram.

Translations

(transitive) to mark something with a monogram

• French: monogrammer (fr)
• German: monogrammieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: monogramoz
• Italian: incidere (it), contrassegnare (it), intagliare (it)

References

• “monogram, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Anagrams

• nomogram

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From mono- +‎ -gram

Noun

monogram n (definite singular monogrammet, indefinite plural monogram or monogrammer, definite plural monogramma or monogrammene)

1. a monogram

References

• “monogram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From mono- +‎ -gram

Noun

monogram n (definite singular monogrammet, indefinite plural monogram, definite plural monogramma)

1. a monogram

References

• “monogram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Noun

monogram m inan

1. monogram

Declension

Declension of monogram

	singular	plural
nominative	monogram	monogramy
genitive	monogramu	monogramów
dative	monogramowi	monogramom
accusative	monogram	monogramy
instrumental	monogramem	monogramami
locative	monogramie	monogramach
vocative	monogramie	monogramy