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Definition of Monophthong
1. n. A single uncompounded vowel sound.
Definition of Monophthong
1. Noun. A vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /a?/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /a??/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre"). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monophthong
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Monophthong
1. 1. A single uncompounded vowel sound. 2. A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph. Origin: Gr. With one sound; alone + sound, voice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monophthong
Literary usage of Monophthong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1898)
"Latin ai and ae : Diphthong or monophthong? by Professor EG Sihler, of New York
University. While accepting with grateful appreciation the positive results ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"[< monophthong + -«?.] Consisting of or pertaining to a monophthong. ...
[(monophthong + -ize.\ To reduce in enunciation to a single sound. ..."
3. The Pronunciation of Greek and Latin by Edgar Howard Sturtevant (1920)
"The third sound in the series can scarcely be a diphthong, since it results in
Boeotian from an original monophthong (open e) and develops into a ..."
4. John Hart's Pronunciation of English (1569-1570) by Otto Jespersen (1907)
"Are we to suppose that toy, toy, coy were then by some pronounced with a monophthong?
Evidently the two cases are parallel, and the solution seems to be ..."
5. Anglistische Forschungen (1906)
"ei, and others Latin ae, ie [e-], which latter pronunciation ("a still thinner")
he identifies with Hart's monophthong e'. But Smith says nothing about his ..."
6. Elocutionary Manual: The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and by Alexander Melville Bell (1887)
"Vowel 15, as a monophthong. 106. Vowel 16, in some words, ... Vowel 3, as a
monophthong. 113. Vowel 11, before R, with the same sound as the preceding. 114. ..."
7. The Principles of Elocution: With Exercises and Notations for Pronunciation by Alexander Melville Bell (1878)
"VOWEL 1, in some words, pronounced ;) (long, monophthong) as in seat, meat, ...
Vowel 3. as a monophthong, long (sec par. 65.) 93: Vowel 4. as French 'e ..."
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